Is there a Linux driver available for the HL-DT-ST GCE 8400B CD RW? Aka LG or Goldstar GCE 8400B.

Thank you.
jv at sent.com

Hi. How is this drive connected? I did a google and it appears to be IDE. If so, you just need to use scsi emulation and go. How? This depends on which distro you are using, and which bootloader, so either search the site or post back with these things

More importantly, post back with how the drive is connected to the box.

Cool

Thanks for the reply.
Yes, it's IDE and I'm doing SCSI emulation. All that is working correctly. But when I run:
# cdrdao write --device 0,1,0 cd.toc
it complains:
Cdrdao version 1.1.5 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de>
SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling
L-EC encoding library - (C) Heiko Eissfeldt
Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty

Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables.

Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'

0,1,0: HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400B Rev: B104
ERROR: No driver found for 'HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8400B', available drivers:
cdd2600
generic-mmc
generic-mmc-raw
plextor
plextor-scan
ricoh-mp6200
sony-cdu920
sony-cdu948
taiyo-yuden
teac-cdr55
toshiba
yamaha-cdr10x
ERROR: Cannot setup device 0,1,0.

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So I checked sourceforge and there are no other drivers besides what I already have.

I also checked on the Goldstar site http://www.lgeservice.com/CDRW.htm and they only have drivers for Windows.

I was able to record *something* by adding '--driver generic-mmc' to the command, but I'm not really comfortable doing that, and I'm not sure if the recording is "OK". This is the first time I've written a CD (in this case .wav files - audio) and xmms won't play it at all, even though it plays other CDs. And kscd will only play it in the CD ROM drive, not the CD RW drive, even though I can normally play from either, and it seems to have difficulty loading the CD in the CD ROM drive.

So I'm assuming I need a different driver beyond what I already have, and that it may not even be written for Linux yet?

Thanks.
-joe vannucci

No sir, you have done that correctly

The generic-mmc driver is just fine, that's the one for your drive (and all IDE drives).

I'd personally use different command line utilties to achieve the burning you are doing, but I highly doubt that's your problem.

If you are burning this disc as an AUDIO CD, it will be read as such, not as data (such as Mp3's ogg's, and wav files themselves, not burned as audio, but burned as data if you follow me). For a ROM drive to read AUDIO CD's there must be the audio cable connecting the drive to the soundcard. The IDE cable is not sufficient enough for current kernels. Look at the CD contents (assuming you can mount it) and decide if it's a data CD burned with audio data files (such as mp3's wav's ogg's) or if it's an audio cd; one that could be played in a standalone cd player that plays CDR's (not mp3's) or CDRW's.

Anyway, as for your question, you are doing it just fine. Here's how I'd do it though:
You have wav files directory /home/music/wavs So:
cdrecord dev=x,x,x speed=x -v -eject -audio /home/music/wavs/*.wav

Replacing dev=x,x,x with whatever cdrecord -scanbus returns; and speed=x with whatever the max speed the medium/media will allow.

HTH

Cool