Re: [TCLUG:11972] CDRW COmpatibility

[Dave Erickson <gsa700@mediaone.net>]

Scott Donoho wrote:
> 
> Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> > > Has anyone gotten a HP 8250i CDRW drive to RW in Linux?
> > > I just got one tonite and I was wondering if it was even worth trying to get
> > > it to work?
> >
> > Far as I know, HP's are well supported. Just nab cdrecord and RTFM.
> >
> > http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
> >
> > I have a Phillips IDE 4x4x16 CDRW drive myself. Works great. Looks
> > pretty cool too. :)
> >
> I have the same CDRW device. I have compiled all of the modules, can mount CDs and read. But
> I'm lost when it comes to writting CD-Rs with cdrecord. It wants to use SCSI device
> addresses. My CDRW is an IDE/ATAPI device.  I have the ide-scsi module loaded so it will
> treat is as a SCSI device. But how do I determine the SCSI address? the "cdrecord -scanbus"
> only shows my DAT device.
> 
>     -Scott

You'll need to see the CDWriting HOWTO. It will answer your questions.

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