On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 10:52 -0500, A. Gautier wrote: > I just upgraded from FC2, clean install for the upgrade. But now my CD-R > does not work. Well, that is not true it works fine as root but not as my > normal user. I have tried to look for a bug report in Bugzilla to no > avail. TIA. I am using a USB connected CD-R. > I would say "don't use ide-scsi" but in the case of a USB connected CD-R I'm not really sure if that is the correct answer. Your output below indicates that it is ATAPI, so you might try using the ide-cd module instead. In that case -scanbus probably won't do anything at all for you; you'll have to find out which ide device the CD-R comes up as (check dmesg or /var/log/messages, or maybe use udev, which I'm not too familiar with personally). At any rate, I know that even in kernel 2.4 when I used ide-scsi I was never able to scan the SCSI bus as anyone other than root, which is probably a good thing. I believe giving generic users access to the raw sg device is a security risk (just as giving them access to the raw ide device would be).
