Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:23:27PM -0600, Kent West wrote:| Now Eric S. Raymond's rant about the (un)usability issues in Linux | (http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux.html) makes sense . | . . . | | I'm trying to get my CD burner to work. | | First I tried working with ide-scsi emulation, but after some | corrections in a previous thread, I've given up on that. | | However, I can't figure out xcdroast or cdrecord without spending hours | studying and/or burning a coaster or two in experimentation, and | eroaster refuses to recognize my CD-RW.I use cdrecord. Here's an example, hopefully it will help clear it up for you : [first see what devices are available] # cdrecord -scanbus [copyright verbiage snipped] scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha. Warning: There may be fatal problems. Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) 'TEAC ' 'CD-540E ' '1.0A' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) * 1,1,0 101) 'ATAPI ' 'CD-RW 48X24 ' 'C.EZ' Removable CD-ROM 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * As you can see, I have two cd drives - a cd-rom and a cd-rw - and they are both the slave device but on different ide channels. [now burn the image] # cdrecord -dao dev=ATAPI:1,1,0 foo.iso Note that cdrecord needs write access to the device in order to burn the disc (naturally). Either run it as root, or say "yes" when debconf asks if you want it installed setuid. I haven't personally had any problems with cdrecord. Does this clarify it? -D
westk[@westkent]:/home/westk:> sudo cdrecord -scanbus Password:Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a26 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. cdrecord: cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup . Wed Mar 17 16:52:03 ------------- westk[@westkent]:/home/westk:> ls -l /dev/pg* ls: /dev/pg*: No such file or directory Wed Mar 17 16:53:02 ------------- westk[@westkent]:/home/westk:> cd /dev Wed Mar 17 16:53:12 ------------- westk[@westkent]:/dev:> sudo ./MAKEDEV pg Wed Mar 17 16:53:18 ------------- westk[@westkent]:/dev:> ls -l /dev/pg* crw------- 1 root root 97, 0 2004-03-17 16:53 /dev/pg0 crw------- 1 root root 97, 1 2004-03-17 16:53 /dev/pg1 crw------- 1 root root 97, 2 2004-03-17 16:53 /dev/pg2 crw------- 1 root root 97, 3 2004-03-17 16:53 /dev/pg3 Wed Mar 17 16:53:21 ------------- westk[@westkent]:/dev:> sudo cdrecord -scanbusCdrecord-Clone 2.01a26 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to
<cdrtools@packages.debian.org>.
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this
version.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. cdrecord: cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .