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ide cd-rom changers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sheldon E. Newhouse)
Thu Nov 14 09:28:38 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:26:14 -0500
From: "Sheldon E. Newhouse" <sen1@math.msu.edu>
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I noticed that there is a program called eject which, among other
things, will allow root to change the slot of a multi-changer ide
cdrom. I have several questions on this.
1. As it stands now, to find the contents of, say a 3-disk cdrom, one has
to do:
umount /dev/cdrom
eject -c 0
mount /dev/cdrom
ls
umount /dev/cdrom
eject -c 1
mount /dev/cdrom
ls
umount /dev/cdrom
eject -c 2
mount /dev/cdrom
ls
Is there an easier way?
2. Also, to change the slots (i.e. run eject -c 0) one has to be root
because otherwise one gets a message like
eject -c 0
eject: open failed for `/dev/hdc': Permission denied
I am reluctant to change the permissions on /dev/hdc to allow users
read-write for obvious reasons. Is there any other way to allow normal
users to list the contents of various slots in an ide-changer and change
the slots?
TIA,
-sen
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