Hi All,

i have Slackware 9.0 installed. i don't use LILO or anything like that. i have a boot diskette (got WinXP on another partition).

obviously this makes the boot process quite slow, and i'm a bit scared the diskette might get ruined some day. i decided to build a startup CD-ROM. got the images ready and all, but can't write to CD.

first when i go "cdrecord -scanbus" at the CLI, i get a message that says cannot open "/dev/pg*".

i tried "cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus" i discovered that my CDRW device is listed as device 0,1,0.

Help please. thanks.

You probably need to pass hdd=ide-scsi (change hdd to where ever you have your burner hooked up) to the kernel in your bootloader.

# CD burning copying ripping info
Is it configured and what is the device? Command this to find out:
cdrecord -scanbus
Adding an IDE CD-Writer to Linux
CD Writing HOWTO
Burning CDs on Linux
# Burn an ISO to disk
cdrecord -v speed=<burning speed> dev=<your device> /path/to/foo.iso
# Burn from disk to disk
cdrecord -v dev=<your device> speed=<burning speed> -isosize /dev/cdrom
# Generate an ISO from a directory.
mkisofs -Jr -o foo.iso /path/to/directory
mkisofs -vrTJUV "Label" -o foo.iso /path/to/directory
# Generate an ISO from a CD
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso
# cdparanoia - search for a drive with reporting of autosense:
cdparanoia -vsQ
# Rip a complete audio CD with cdparanoia
cdparanoia -B "1-"
Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO
# Convert mp3 to wav with lame
for i in *.mp3; do lame --decode $i `basename $i .mp3`.wav; done
# Burn a CD from wav files
cdrecord -v -audio -pad speed=<burning speed> dev=<your device> /path/to/*.wav
# Erase a CDRW
cdrecord -v dev=<your device> speed=<burning speed> blank=fast

Thanks fancypiper, lots of good info.

You may or may not have to pass hdd=ide-scsi. Since cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus finds your burner, and shows it as 0,1,0; you may be able to burn with a command similar to this:

cdrecord -v speed=[speed of burner] dev=ATAPI:1,0 -data [name of iso image]

On my system, cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus shows that my burner is 0,0,0 and so this is the exact command I use to burn iso images to disk:

cdrecord -v speed=16 -overburn driveropts=burnfree dev=ATAPI:0,0 -pad -data [name of iso image]

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

Thanks Cerbere, your method actually worked.

cheers all!!

Actually ?!!??!! You doubted me? ;-)

Glad I could help.

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

does anyone know what the format is to burn over a network?

I had to put my CD-R in my Linux box so when I have to burn, I can either copy it over or find out how to burn over a network.

I have tried

cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 hamish@172.24.15.228:/home/hamish/data2/burn/dream.iso

that Ip address is that of my desktop where the file is.

thanks, hope someone has an answer

hamish

ps: go linux! hehe

OK,

I now figure that I can do this with NFS, which I'm in the process of setting up.

I will get back to you all

Hamish

I had that problem, and just adding this line to the bootloader didn.t work. because I have a scsi cdwriter... I recompiled the kernel again, and after that -scanbus read it properly. still it is very strange that it stopped working... cause I didn.t do anything... very windows-like...

Well, the solution is quite simple! This should apply to all distros not just slackware(the one I am using and the one in question here).

first, if you modified/updated the original kernel, the cdrecord would not see your ATAPI disks anymore, therefore, you need to complile kernel as follow:

- go to the IDE/ATAPI section and disable complitly the CDROM support.
- enable SCSI emulation as built in (as module might work as well)
- in SCSI section make sure SCSI support is enabled (not module) and the generic SCSI support also enabled (not module).

Compile/install/reboot with new kernel and you will see the generic scsi finding your ATAPI cdroms... at that point, the issue is fixed.

Enjoy,
Sebastian
smaruntiel@home.ro

PS to the original posting:

don't forget to specify in lilo the append option for your /dev/hdwahtever your cdrom/writer is and load the ide-scsi module (which in slackware is loaded by default trough /etc/rc.d/rc.modules ). Nevertheless double-check to make sure the module is loaded @ boot-time.