[nflug] cdrecord woes

[Josh Johnson]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, JJ Neff wrote:

> 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...
>

I know. any docs I've seen from him... He just plain 'ol doesn't like 
linux.


> 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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