[clue-tech] cdrecord

[Matt Gushee]

Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:

>>>Hmm ... I don't think I would give up that quickly. Just out of 
>>>curiosity, what does
>>>
>>>  $ cdrecord -scanbus
>>>
>>>tell you about the drive?

> It's an IDE drive

Yes, I figured that, since you specified it as /dev/hdc (BTW, are you 
supposed to be able to use a /dev/hd* device name? I didn't think you 
could).

> Ideas?

One idea--and it's kind of a shot in the dark, but I'll tell you what 
works for me: I also have an IDE CD burner (well, technically ATAPI, but 
I guess it usually amounts to the same thing these days). I used to run 
it with SCSI emulation, but at some point in the 2.6 kernel series that 
stopped working. What I do now is

   $ cdrecord [other options] dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 <iso image>

The numbers, of course, will vary depending on your drive configuration. 
And before trying that, you might want to try

   $ cdrecord dev=HELP

to show what device specifications are supported.

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Matt Gushee
Englewood, CO, 80110