Re: cdrdao question

[Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>]

Hi I'll try that, that man page could use a rewrite if this works.  I 
would want to learn how to get everything working on the software though 
before attempting such a rewrite.  I wouldn't want to introduce errors in 
that process nor leave it anymore dense than it is now.



On Thu, 18 May 2006, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote:

> On 5/18/06, Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net> wrote:
> >  The examples in the man page don't appear to cover this job unless I'm
> >  reading something and it's just flying by.  How could cdrdao be used to
> >  burn an already existing iso image to a cdr disk?  cdrecord in stable
> >  version for kernel 2.4.x just ejects a blank CD and claims it can't find a
> >  CD in the drive after that but then again that package has as debian-bugs
> >  states it a great bug in that it fails to allocate a scsi buffer if I
> >  recall properly.
>
> I might be wrong, but one you have an iso ready you can generate a toc
> file like the following:
>
> 	     CD_ROM
> 	     TRACK MODE1
> 	     DATAFILE "<iso_file>"
>
> Then you just:
>
> cdrdao --device /dev/cdrom write <your_toc>
> cdrdao --devide 0,0,0 write <your_toc>
>
> Weird thing is that all this is in the man page, of course scattered
> in the whole page.
>
>
> --  Javier  --