Okay, I have read the HowTo's and tried everything that I am capable of at this time to burn a CD.
At this point I am


please refer to this post for where it kinda starts

I have a CDROM (AFREEY 56X, model CD-2056E) and a CDRW (EIDE (ATAPI), MMC compliant, 4x4x24 model 8250i). I have set things up so the CDRW is recognized as a SCSI device, per the HowTo's. I have not done the same with my CDROM device.

When I try to mount my CDROM with an audio disk therein, I get the following:
QUESTIONS:[list=1][*] How do I get gcombust to recognize this CDROM? [*] How do I get gcombust to burn an audio disk from my CDROM onto my CDRW?[/list=1]

IIRC, could be 2 things 1)the "problem" with Generic SCSI vs IDE drivers; when both are enabled at kernel build time, the IDE-ATAPI modules take precedence over Generic SCSI support for CDR's, then you would add a "hdx=ide-scsi" for your CDR to the append line for your current kernel in /etc/lilo.conf (/sbin/lilo -v -t to test) 2)mountpoint/fs type/options; where ide-scsi is used, the symlink from /dev/cdrom has to be changed from /dev/hdx to /dev/sdx, I usually probe for changes in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit to change the links. you could try a manual mount to check it its recognized:
mount /dev/sdx -t iso9660 -o ro /mnt/cdrw

*on my box the symlink for the CDRW goes from /dev/cdrom to /dev/sda, but burning goes tru /dev/sga, sda=!sga, theyre different "special" devices.

HTH.

Thanks for the input. BTW, what does IIRC mean?
I have made the entry "hdd=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf. And when I attempt to burn a CD on the fly, all things seem to work. It looks like a burn is happening. But when I try to play the music on the newly burned CD, I just get white noise. Every now and then, there is a spurt of garbled music that I can hear.
And, when I try to mount any CD containing music on my CDROM, I cannot mount it, because it is the "wrong file system type or too many drives mounted", something like that, I can't remember exactly because I am using Windows right now. So I am wondering if I am trying to do something that is not possible. Are music CD's of the iso9660 type, and should you be able to mount them like a data CD? I can play the CD by going to KDE and choosing CDPlayer.

Questions:[list=1][*]Are music CD's of the iso9660 type, and can they be mounted like any data cd?[*]I think I understand, but would like to confirm that you are telling me to put an append entry in /etc/lilo.conf that says "hdc=ide-scsi" right next to the entry that, right now, says "hdd=ide-scsi"?[*]If I change /etc/lilo.conf append line to [append="hdc-scsi" "hdd=ide-scsi"], how do I then mount them? Right now, with /etc/lilo.conf containing only the append='hdd-scsi' on my box, hdd is recognized as scd0.[/list=1]
thanks

Hi rdaves-

I put my Buffalo Springfield CD in the reader and told GCombust to copy it and read all the errors. No music comes out. Makes me think this sort of disk has copyright protection that prevents copying. Could this be what is happening?

rolf
No, copywrite protection is not an issue with the CD I am trying to record. I am able to duplicate the CD just fine using Windows.

Anybody, indluding rolf
I have a CDROM and a CDRW on my computer. I have managed to set both devices up as SCSI and now have a new problem. Please see my new post here

go to http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&threadid=7082 to see news on a successful copy operation (Data CD only)