Debian and cdrecord under >2.6.8

[Dave Andruczyk]

--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Glad to hear I'm not the only one.  It's a morass to me!  since cdrecord has
> become the defacto standard and the author has no intention of supporting
> what
> he considers the hopeless redheaded stepchild that is the linux kernel, it
> appear only a new fork that actually has maintenance is the hope for 2.6. 
> I'm
> sitting here considering putting a 2.4 kernel on here and jsut staying 2.4
> 
> Why are you using 2.6 with cdrdao?  I thought cdrdao and cdrecord come from
> same cdrtools?  It may be my media and I may need to flash my dvdburner to
> new
> firmware _I'm going to try that soon as well.  Oh I hope my wife gives me
> time
> to work on this this weekend :-)
> 
> I am having no trouble burning DVDs its just cdrecord that is getting me
> everytime.
> 

I have zero problems with it,  though my burners are both SCSI devices (one is
a true SCSI burner, the other is a IDE drive on a firewire bridge (considered
SCSI by linux)

I'm running:
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
on-the-fly encryption (version 1.0-rc1) built-in, (C) 2004,2005 Maximilian
Decker 

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 <burbon04 at gmx.de>.
      For more information please see
http://burbon04.gmxhome.de/linux/CDREncryption.html.
      The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.11.11
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.

installed from the "cdrtools-2.01-r3" package (gentoo)



Dave J. Andruczyk

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