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Re: [LUG] permissions and potential new user

 

Mark Jose wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 August 2007 23:51, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Mark Jose wrote:
>>> You will find the cd/dvd drive in /media on a (K)Ubuntu system. It is
>>> going to be called cdrom (which is actually a symlink to cdrom0).  The
>>> device path will be /dev/hdc, not hda which is usually reserved for hard
>>> disks.
>> Well that depends, if the PC has a Serial ATA hard drive then it is
>> quite possible the CD/DVD drive is on /dev/hda
> 
> Gah, these new fangled devices! When I was a lad....  ;)

/cue the music from the Hovis advert.

Those were the days, when hard drives were massive and had more 
interfaces that you could shake a stick at. :-)

Rob




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