[64studio-devel] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary user?

[R.Wolff]

OK, I'M starting away with my questions then:

it seems I can't gain write access to my HDD when I'm not logged in as
root. How can I remedy this? I have tried to adjust fstab, mtab etc, to
no avail. I've tried chmod, chown without success, I've tried giving rw,
exec permissions to all my drives from the the root account, didn't work
neither. There are just so many things I don't (yet) understand. And
there are so many things interconnected/dependant of each other, that
it's really not easy to get to grips with Linux.

I have my PC configured as follows:
Gigabyte GA-7 VRXP rev.2 mobo, with Promise 20276 RAID/ATA controller
onboard, 4 HDD & 2 optical drives.
The HDD are all connected as master to their own IDE/ATA channel, the
optical drives are slave of IDE 1/IDE 2.
On disk 1 I have 3 partitions (Dual booting Win XP Pro/64 Studio & a
Backup/temp partition).HD 2 is my recording disk usually, disk 3
contains my samples & loops, disk 4 contains MIDI related stuff and
personal files.

Now in order to be able to write to my disks, what am I to do? I don't
always want to log on as root, to not compromise the security/stability
of my PC, since I'm permanetly connected to the net (behind a ADSL
Router/Firewall).

Any help would be greatly appreciated
TIA

Raphael