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Kovid Goyal 2008-05-28 07:48:11 -07:00
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<pre class="wiki">prs500 info</pre> <pre class="wiki">prs500 info</pre>
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This should return some miscellaneous information about your reader. If it works you're all set. This should return some miscellaneous information about your reader. If it works you're all set.
On some distributions, you have to give non-root users access to the SONY Reader devices. Add yourself to the plugdev group (as root) On some distributions, you have to give non-root users access to the SONY Reader devices.
<pre class="wiki">gpasswd -a username plugdev</pre> First check what group the SONY reader devices are assigned to by
<pre class="wiki">ls -l /dev/sd?</pre>
If you've just plugged in your reader, the reader devices should be at the bottom of the list. On
my system I get
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brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 2008-05-27 13:50 /dev/sda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 16 2008-05-27 13:50 /dev/sdb
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 2008-05-28 07:43 /dev/sdc
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 48 2008-05-28 07:43 /dev/sdd
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 64 2008-05-28 07:43 /dev/sde
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Thus the group needed is disk. Add yourself to the group with the command
<pre class="wiki">gpasswd -a username groupname</pre>
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Now reboot and you're done! Now reboot and you're done!
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