[nflug] cdrecord woes

[JJ Neff]

I would happily use mkisofs and turn data I want to add to a CD into an iso
first if I could reliably burn.  The way cdrecord refuses to even see media as
available in the drive is very frustrating.  

I can't be the only person who is wondering why cdrecording should be so
hard...  And the support from the maintainer - well when he gets done
"answering" a support question you wonder where such hate came from :-)  Anyway
he blames it solely on the kernel developers and tells you to use 2.4 with scsi
emu Or just transfer to Solaris...

Drats

I have same trouble with 2.4, when I switch from my 2.6 my video card and my vm
sessions become horked and a bunch of other apps stop behaving.

Oh well - need to find a way to make it Just Work.

JJN

--- Josh Johnson <joshj at linuxmail.org> wrote:

> I've been having the same problem since 2.6. But I burn so few and far 
> between that I just boot into my old 2.4 kernel to do it. But as of recent 
> I've had other problems with 2.4 because the rest of my system has been 
> moving further away from it. So its time to buckle down and figure this 
> out. My understanding has been that in 2.4 you needed the SCSI emulation 
> for cdrecord because it didn't use ATAPI transport. Now with 2.6 you 
> don't need it. I had the scsi-emu 
> drivers built as modules and I figured that simply not loading them would 
> be good enough. But maybe it has to be taken out all together. I could 
> very definitely 
> be wrong about this, but I'm going to get around to it in the near future. 
> To answer your other question: cdrdao works fine for me in 2.6. But its 
> ways are so weird (you have to make a xml file for it) that I only use it 
> to burn isos and vcds.
> 
> -Josh
> 
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, JJ Neff wrote:
> 
> > cdrecord has been busting my hump since 2.6 kernel first reared.  I was
> still
> > able to burn a cd to an external 4X acer (USB) but my internal DVD burner
> never
> > got to burn (once- but I'm not sure what alignment the stars might have
> been in
> > to get that one to go)
> > Well now under 2.6.12-1-686 (debian testing) I can't get anything to burn -
> > cd-R media will not get recognized in either burner.  Even my trusty slow
> > external keeps telling me bad /wrong media no matter what I stick in it
> (get
> > yer head out of the gutters!)
> >
> > Last night after an update/upgrade I noticed cdrecord was upgraded but t
> made
> > not difference.  Still no media is being recognized as valid in the burner.
> > Any links about 2.6.12 or the like would be appreciated...
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Oh also any other tools besides cdrecord able to work cd burners under
> Linux?
> >
> > I can burn dvds just fine with dvd+rw-tools ...
> >
> >
> >
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