[OLUG] burning cds - which software to use?

Wed Apr 19 21:39:08 UTC 2000

I put append "hdc=ide-scsi" into my lilo.conf (note: change hdc if your
drive isnt the master device on your secondary IDE!) and only the burner was
treated as a scsi device, the other cd was still IDE. Your milage may vary.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: csl at dilbert.logan.plconline.com
[mailto:csl at dilbert.logan.plconline.com]On Behalf Of Chad S. Lauritsen
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 10:42 AM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: Re: [OLUG] burning cds - which software to use?

Neal,

I first got my burner to work under linux about a month ago, and boy, is
it great. The cdrecord utilitiy uses SCSI-based function calls, so you
need to setup scsi emulation for your atapi devices. You need to make
sure you have the following compiled in the the kernel or as modules:

SCSI emulation support (under block devices)
SCSI support
SCSI generic support
turn off "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device"

then, if you built as modules, make sure you

modprobe sg
modprobe ide-scsi

you can test to see if your ATAPI burner is being recognized by running

cdrecord -scanbus

It will give you an error if it can't find any drives or if your
scsi/ide emu crap isn't setup right. Of course, more info can be found
in /proc/scsi/

I forgot to turn off the "probe all LUNs" and this is what I got (it
works, but it confusing/annoying):

NEC CDROM /dev/hdc became /dev/sr8
PHILIPPS CDRW BURNER /dev/hdb became /dev/sr1
IOMEGA ZIP DRIVe /dev/hdd became /dev/sda

Disclaimer: i don't have a SCSI card in this box, so this may seriously
mess with your setup if you do, i don't know much about it. It was
intimidating to get started, but I was glad i took the time because I
was able to use free software to burn Mac/ISO hybrid cds. Tickled pink I
was. As always, YMMV.

Eric Penne wrote:
>
> at the lilo prompt
>
> hdd=ide-scsi or hdd=scsi-ide
>
> I don't remember which one.
>
> Read the CD-Writing Howto at
>
> http://www.olug.org/rtfm
>
> click documentation on the side bar and scroll down in
> the main window to CD-Writing.
>
> --- Adam Lassek <lunatik at radiks.net> wrote:
> > From what I've read, you need to run the burner with
> > scsi emulation if
> > it's atapi.
> >
> > puzzled wrote:
> > >
> > >    I've got  all of the programs installed except
> > the hfs utils and I don't think I'll be getting many
> > macintosh disks so thats that.
> > >
> > >     The gtoaster setup seems pretty
> > straightforward except that it wants /dev/scd0(0,0)
> > and I have /dev/hdd for my burner - I did some
> > reading about this and it seems like
> > > there might be some tricks to be performed to get
> > the system to take an IDE drive - any more words of
> > wisdom?
> > >
> > > Vincent wrote:
> > >
> > > > puzzled wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >    Which software should I use for making data
> > CDs? For audio? I'd prefer something that came in
> > RPM format ... makes my life a lot easier in terms
> > of maintaining systems.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> >
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > Here's a list of programs you will probably want
> > to install. I stripped off the
> > > > versions because it was all from 8 months ago.
> > All of it's available in RPM.
> > > > Just search freshmeat.  This will allow you to
> > do nearly anything.  record
> > > > audio, mp3 to cd, data, iso, etc..  I preffered
> > gnome-toaster over xcdroast for
> > > > the gui.  The gtoaster documentation for setting
> > everything up is really good.
> > > > It's easy if you follow their directions.
> > > >
> > > > cdparanoia-III-
> > > > cdrecord-
> > > > cdrecord-cdda2wav-
> > > > cdrecord-devel-
> > > > cdrecord-mkisofs-
> > > > cdtux-
> > > > gnome-toaster-
> > > > hfsutils-
> > > > hfsutils-devel-
> > > > mkhybrid-
> > > > mkisofs-
> > > > mpg123-
> > > > sox-
> > > >
> > > >
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