Re: cdrecord: What does "BURN-Free is OFF" mean?
Paul E Condon <pecondon@quiknet.com> writes:
> What else might be wrong? Googling reveals that my newer writer might be
> "ATAPI". Is this important in this context? I found a few rants about
> ATAPI. I couldn't make out whether the author(s) thought it was good,
> but poorly supported by Linux, or bad in itself. How should the setups
> for these two drives differ (if at all) if one is "ATAPI" and the other
> is not?
>
You pretty much have to use scsi emulation for atapi drives under
Linux. However, I think cdrecord requires this, so if cdrecord's telling
you that burnfree is off, you've probably got scsi emulation working. I
think if cdrecord --scanbus finds your drive (as root), it's emulating.
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