On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 19:35, Stuart Sears wrote: > On Sun 26 September 2004 01:23, Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 12:24, Keith Wolters wrote: > > NOTE: cdrecord -scanbus now seems to require root authority to do its > > thing as well. It also only reports on the scsi devices for me. I have > > an ATAPI dvd burner but cdrecord -scanbus only sees the scsi hard drive > > I am using and not the dvd burner. > tried telling it to look specifically for an ATAPI device? > cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI > should do the job as a normal user. Thanks Stuart. That does it, but still does not fix the problem with burning CDs as a user :-(. However, I can live with that.