cdrecord defamed sys as badly designed, unmaintained
I know this is a facetious title for a post. But honestly, cdrecord claims that my new gentoo (kernel2.6.16) installation is either badly designed or unmaintained. (How could it know? Can it do a better job?)
And more to the point, is it usable to burn CDs anyway? If so, should I use ATA or ATAPI? If not, what needs to be changed? Seriously! I laughed when I read the output! Code:
$ cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI: Cheers! - Jerry Oberle perl -e 'printf "%silto%cgo%cerle%cearth%s%cnet%c", "ma", 58, 98, 64, "link", 46, 10;' |
I get the same messages on Slackware for those commands. The first one I don't get at all, the second one about "Using badly designed ATAPI" goes back to when using SCSI emulation was the preferred way to access CD drives.
The bottom line is that on my system I have no problems using cdrecord, so I wouldn't be too worried about it. |
Got it working
Various other notes eventually revealed that under 2.6 kernels, that weird dev=ATAPI:blah,blah,blah syntax is now obsolete, and that the messages being issued were code rot left over from a flame war between Linus and the guy who wrote cdrecord, circe kernel v 2.5.x.
Anyway, I just tried using the following command: cdrecord -v -speed=40 dev=/dev/hdc grub.iso and got a workable, bootable CD. Thanks for the information. If any subsequent readers want to know what's on the CD, it's just this: Code:
ReadMe.txt Code:
cd /tmp Code:
title Gentoo Linux 2.6.16-r9-v5 - Jerry Oberle perl -e 'printf "%silto%cgo%cerle%cearth%s%cnet%c", "ma", 58, 98, 64, "link", 46, 10;' |
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