[nflug] RE: Burning a CD-R

[Josh Johnson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "JJ Neff" <jjneff at yahoo.com>
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Re: [nflug] RE: Burning a CD-R
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 17:23:43 -0800 (PST)

> 
> No software - no matter how pretty or goooey will do anything if your
> underlying kernel and cdrecord DO not like the burner or work correctly
> 
> YOU MUST try to burn first with the cmd line cdrecord (or cdrdao) as that is
> all that is being called when you use KDE, XCDROAST etc etc.  If 
> you can't make
> it work the GUI on top won't be able to either...
> 
> Now when you've read all the cdrecord MAN page, and the ever 
> continuing saga of
> cdrecord VS 2.6 kernel and atapi interface etc etc etc you'll realize why I
> stopped burning cds and burn DVDs exclusively - dvd+rwtools works just fine.
> Believe you me, I really want to burn CDs but cdrecord does not work with my
> hardware under my kernel - not much I can do unless I'm willing to 1) reboot
> into 2.4 kernel and use scsi emulation (and Maybe work) 2) become an expert C
> programmer and fork cdrecord and start over with a non scsi specific
> interface...

Someone already did this.

Doing this from the command line is daunting if you haven't done it before.
@Ron Maggio: Hereis an example you can try which I think should work well. I recently got my migration-from-2.4-to-2.6-cdrecord-problems straightened out.

Make sure that there is no scsi-emulation going on on your command line. If "cat /proc/cmdline" has a line that looks like "ide-scsi=/dev/hdc" then you need to take that out of your bootloader options and reboot.

Make a directory and put some stuff in it that will fit onto a cd. I'll call my directory "asdf". from outside the directory do this:
mkisofs -R -o asdf.raw asdf

Then find your device:
cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus

The output on my computer looks like this:
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'SONY    ' 'CD-RW  CRX175E2 ' 'S002' Removable CD-ROM
        1,1,0   101) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-M1212' '1R14' 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) *

I want to use the SONY so my target drive is 1,0,0 . Now burn your cd (blank cd in the drive):
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=ATA:1,0,0 -isosize asdf.raw

Another suggestion someone had on this list a little while ago (which I never tried but seems like it should work) was this:
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/hdc -multi asdf.raw

It should be noted that on some systems you need to be root to do this. Depends on your setup. Good luck!

-Josh



> 
> Hmm Let me start reading some more :-)
> 
> JJN
> 
> --- Richard Hubbard <hubbardr at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> > i've never had any problems with xcdroast
> >
> > another idea is to be a tough guy and do it through the command line tools.
> >
> > (_The Linux cookbook_ by carla schroder gives a no nonsense step 
> > by step for how to use these tools, or you can try the man pages.)
> >
> > Me, I'm a wimp that uses xcdroast.  The nice thing is that it is 
> > strictly x, and doesn't depend on gnome or kde.
> >
> >
> > Ron Maggio wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, all
> > > Well...I tried both toast in KDE and k3d in Gnome, and both 
> > suck! > Neither will burn! It goes through all the motions after 
> > I gave it > what to burn, and it just sits there! Nothing! I even 
> > left it alone > and did something else for 15 minutes and came 
> > back to see it had done > nothing. Stalled in limbo land, it was 
> > suggested that Nero had a > product for Linux. To me that beats 
> > the whole purpose, to get away > from commercial software. I 
> > really don't want to go back to Windows, > but it seems I will if 
> > I can get full usage of this system. What the > hell good is it 
> > if you can't do the same as you can do in Windows. Oh > by the 
> > way, I did RTFM. I read all that there could be to read about > 
> > how to use this software, and I still can't get it to work. The > 
> > hardware is somewhat new, and worked very well under Windows. Any 
> > help > would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks, Ron M.
> > >
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