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

[R.Wolff]

First off, I want to apologise to Daniel. You may have received this 
exact message a few times already, because I have accidentally sent it 
to 64studio-devel-request at 64studio.com (but I think it has been rejected 
anyway as beeing possibly spam).

My original question was this:

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