k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- how to change?

[Derrick Ryalls]

On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien <oliver-forward at charter.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote:
> > On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien <oliver.iberien at charter.net> wrote:
> > > I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by k3b by
> adding
> > > ALL             ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/camcontrol devlist
> > > to sudoers and starting k3b with sudo. Unfortunately, k3b has the idea
> > > that
> > > this is read-only. In "Setup Devices" there is no way to remove a
> device
> > > from
> > > the "readonly" heading and place it under "writer drives," and none of
> > > the options except for the cdrao editor are editable. Attempting to
> > > change the driver crashes the program.
> > >
> > > k3b must be reading this from somewhere, but where? The drive is r,w
> is
> > > fstab.
> >
> > I don't have access to my laptop (where I recently dealt with this), but
> > /etc/devfs.conf (i think) has places where you can set the permission to
> > devices.  I believe I did 0666 (read/write to all) for acd0, cdrom0,
> pass0,
> > and perhaps 1 other.  After that (and manually setting perms to
> > /dev/<list>) I was able to use k3b without being root.
>
> I had done that. I can access the drive, but it is still not being
> correctly
> recognized as a writer.
>
> Oliver
>

What happens when you run k3b as root (just to test)

Also, what are the permissions on
(assuming the writer is the first cd device)
/dev/cd0
/dev/acd0
/dev/pass0