[ILUG] Do not ever do what I've just done, and can someone help me undo it?

[Michael Armbrecht]

On Thursday 14 February 2002 17:13, Rick Moen had no problem writing:

> > ...you have to be root to run cdrecord...
> ...until the day you discover the chgrp or sudo commands.

Which I have, thanks. But using sudo is still running things as root....

> > I think that in the CD writing area, on the Linux side lots of bugs
> > have to be stomped on.
>
> On available evidence, the cause of your hard hang lay in the ATAPI SCSI
> emulation layer.  Which, of course, can be eliminated by using hardware
> that doesn't need it.  Just a thought.

If I would have managed to get my hands on a SCSI CD writer, I would have got 
one, you can believe me. Walk in a computer shop in  Dublin and ask for a 
SCSI CD writer, and you'll be looked at as if you had antlers growing out of 
your forehead. But probably I just don't know the right places to go.

Mick


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