[ILUG] Burning CDs

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Mon, 03 Dec 2001, Tom Mackey wrote:

> I have a DVD on /dev/hdd and a CD rewriter on /dev/hdc.  (Both are ide
> obviously).  How do I burn an iso image that is on the DVD  onto the CD
> rewriter?
> 
> I have tried cdrecord at the commamd line and it seems to need SCSI devices.
> Using -scanbus gives "Cannot open SCSI driver"

<Anybody please correct me if I'm wrong, this is AFAIK>

cdrecording in linux is only really supported for scsi devices.  You can
use IDE devices by means of the ide-scsi module which allows IDE devices to
sort of masquerade as SCSI.  Take a look at the cdrecording howto.

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO

You will have a further problem though.  You'll actually need to remove the
ide-cdrom.o module and load the 

ide-scsi.o
scsi.o
sg_mod.o

Then *both* DVD and CDRW are recognized as scsi devices.  I think you'll
then mount the DVD under /dev/sdXX.  You cannot have the ide-scsi module
for one and normal ide for the other.  They have to both be one or other.

once the moduels are loaded 

% cdrecord -scanbus 

will list the devices it has recognized as scsi and give you the three
number device code eg 1,0,0.   I generally would mount the cdrom and take
an ISO of it using mkisofs

% mkisofs -J -r -o cd.iso Some_Dir

and record with some thing like....

% cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=0,1,0 cd.iso

Hope this is a) helpful and b) correct

Gavin

> 
> 
> I also have GUI burners but all seem to need things to do with SCSI
> 
> Tom Mackey
> 
> 
> 
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