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I feel really stupid asking this question, but how do i burn a cd with linux (slackware). I have played around with cdrecord a little, but i am not sure if it is the best program to use, since it seems to be a scsi-thing. Is this the correct program to use??
I have an ide-cd-drive, and i am not sure what the /dev/... name of it is. Is there any easy way to find the cd-drive's device name??
The program responsible for burning is cdrecord. There is no other. All the gui burning software uses cdrecord as the actual burning software. I use xcdroast my self
Originally posted by exvor The program responsible for burning is cdrecord. There is no other. All the gui burning software uses cdrecord as the actual burning software. I use xcdroast my self
I am not sure if this is entirely accurate. Some GNOME/GTK apps use libburn and not cdrecord.
I've just found out that the mount point for my cd drive is /dev/hdc.
I cannot get cdrecord to burn to device /dev/hdc, though.
Code:
root@server:~# cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc whax-3.0-200705.iso
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds...
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '/dev/hdc'
devname: '/dev/hdc'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported.
cdrecord: Read-only file system. Cannot open '/dev/hdc'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
I'm stuck here. I cannot get it to do anything more than the stuff above... :-(
Oh, by the way: i have two harddrives on one ide-cable, and two cddrives on an other cable. Both cables go to the same (or at least, very similar) contorller.
just a minute :
what are you seing when you type "ls -l /dev/hdc"
look for the symlink of /dev/hdc, and you see /dev/ide/lun0.... or something like.
this is what your need for cdrecord. The true device.
Are you listen about the devfs?
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