On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 08:59:10AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Pigeon writes: > > The woody version of cdrecord is too old to play nicely with 2.6 > > kernels. You need a 2.x version from backports.org. > > > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian stable cdrtools cdrdao > > > > Even that isn't guaranteed to work. With my CD-RW (CyberDrive CW088D) > > and kernel 2.6.6, cdrecord causes a flood of drive errors and > > sometimes locks the system up, no matter whether I use ide-cd or > > ide-scsi. Fortunately, cdrdao does work. > > > > There has been a poisonous ding-dong between Joerg Schilling and the > > Linux kernel developers for years - the bitching about the driver in > > the Readme file is only a wee bit of it - and the flaky CD burning > > under 2.6 seems to be a result of this. Which is dead and chewed. > > Maybe I am simply lucky this time, but I am not having one bit > of trouble burning CD's with the two drives I have in 2.6.5 and SCSI > emulation so you have probably saved me time if nothing else. It seems to be highly dependent on the drive. Google found me about three people with the same drive as me and the same problem, and a few with a CyberDrive CW058D (I think) who were OK. > I had been wondering if there was any CD controller program > that would run the drives in CD playing mode so that one can listen > through the headphone jack and audio electronics in the drive. I had > an ancient application called cdcontrol or something like that which > never worked with anything I previously had, but it also needed the > non-SCSI device such as /dev/hdc or maybe even it was /dev/cdrom. I > seem to recall that the only thing it successfully did was open and > close the tray and print the calendar display for the CD, but it > wouldn't turn on the audio D/A and play a disk. > > It's a minor issue, but it seems like a waste to see those > little volume thumb wheels and jacks on the front of the drives and not > be able to make them do something. I just use the play button on the front of the drive :-) It looks like cdtool may be the package you want: Package: cdtool Priority: optional Section: sound Installed-Size: 160 Maintainer: Martin Mitchell <martin@debian.org> Architecture: i386 Version: 2.1.5-4.1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) Filename: pool/main/c/cdtool/cdtool_2.1.5-4.1_i386.deb Size: 36714 MD5sum: 69ec3836d0d8607f9831b2f0b85462c5 Description: some text-based commands for managing a CD cdtool contains cdplay, cdeject, cdstop, cdpause, and several other utilities that let you control your CD-ROM drive from a command line. Also, it comes with cdir, a utility that uses a workman-style database to keep track of the contents of different CDs. It now includes a commandline utility for controlling a CD-ROM called cdctrl. It would be my suspicion that any application such as this would be trying to access the CD-ROM drive in IDE/ATAPI mode, as nobody uses ide-scsi if they don't absolutely have to :-) If you have cdrom, ide-cd, ide-scsi, sr_mod and sg as modules, and your CD-ROM hasn't thrown up any weird errors, it SHOULD be possible to switch between IDE/ATAPI and ide-scsi modes by rmmoding all the modules for one mode and then modprobeing those for the other mode. Note the SHOULD :-) You could write wrapper scripts for cdrecord etc. to automate the changeover. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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