Whenever I try to burn a CD with cdrecord on my system with a 2.6.1 kernel I get alot of numbers thrown at me and then it fails. I know this is because under 2.6 kernels I don't use SCSI emulation anymore, but how do I get my CDRW burner working?

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what are the - in front of the dev and speed for?

ive always just done:

cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=2 filename.iso

i have to set my speed to 2 so it will work properly. ihave a pos burner and cheep media.

what is the command for cdrecord to detect your CDRW? try that first then put in the correct dev=X,X,X

OK I just needed to specify an ATAPI: in front of the device name in the dev option.

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When I do that I get this error message:
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot set RR-scheduler
cdrecord: Permission denied. WARNING: Cannot set priority using setpriority().
cdrecord: WARNING: This causes a high risk for buffer underruns.
scsidev: 'ATAPI:/dev/cdrw'
devname: 'ATAPI:/dev/cdrw'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'LG '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B '
Revision : '1.04'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 6
Reference speed: 2
Is not unrestricted
Is erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11078 (97:34/22)
ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74)
1T speed low: 0 (reserved val 0) 1T speed high: 4
power mult factor: 3 5
recommended erase/write power: 3
A1 values: 02 3A B0
A2 values: 00 00 00
Disk type: Phase change
Manuf. index: 11
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 359999
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real BLANK mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Performing OPC...
Blanking PMA, TOC, pregap
cdrecord: Input/output error. blank unit: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB: A1 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 09 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x09 Qual 0x00 (track following error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 48.203s timeout 9600s
cdrecord: Cannot blank disk, aborting.
cdrecord: Some drives do not support all blank types.
cdrecord: Try again with cdrecord blank=all.


And I know that my drive supports the fast blank I was doing, I've done it dozens of times before.