Re: Window manager - implementation bug/feature ???

[eparker () MINDSEC COM (Erik Parker)]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Michael Jennings wrote:

> On Thursday, 07 October 1999, at 11:01:55 (-0600),
> Erik Parker wrote:
>
> > However, /dev/hdc is not his CDrom unless his primary hard drive is
> > SCSI, and his cdrom is primary IDE.. then I can understand
> > that.. but it doesn't sound like that is the case.. sounds like the
> > user when the login has access to everything on that drive.
>
> According to hd(4):
>
>        Hd*  are  block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives
>        in raw mode.  The master drive on  the  primary  IDE  con­
>        troller (major device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is
>        hdb.  The master drive of  the  second  controller  (major
>        device number 22) is hdc and the slave hdd.
>
> So if he has two IDE hard drives on his primary controller and an IDE
> CD-ROM on his second controller (as my home machine does), his first
> HD will be /dev/hda, his second will be /dev/hdb, and his CD-ROM will
> be /dev/hdc.  I don't see a problem with having read-write access to a
> read-only device....  :-)
>
> Michael

Doh.. Very true.. I am unsure of why exactly I was thinking hdc was
primary Ide.. Not sure why I was thinking that..

But still, unless I missed it, he never said that WAS his cd-rom.. 
Even though most OEM machines come with CDROM on master secondary (hdc)..

That would be normal operations I suppose.. 

Erik Parker
eparker () mindsec com