added CD Burner

[keywi]

I have just replaced my cd rom with a cd burner. I am running slackware 9 and KDE 3.1. What is needed to configure this burner to be recognized and what is the best software for general burning of CD's (copying, created audio cd's, or data cd's)? I am going to have to install a program because i can't find k3b.

Thanks for JL,

William

www.keywi.org

[malloc]

As for the config part, you need to have scsi-emulation enabled in the kernel and add "hdx=ide-scsi" to your bootloader (in the append=, part for lilo and the kernel/ part for grub). You then need to have ide-cd, ide-scsi, scsi_mod modules running (plz someone correct me if i'm wrong).
As for the best cd creation app i'll have to give my vote to k3b
. There you can read the docs and find out what other apps you need to install (mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao among others).
Happy burning :D

[keywi]

I am not finding append= in my lilo.conf file. also, i am trying to find out how to edit the kernel. i am total new at this. Normally, i would just reinstall the os again. but then i would not learn anything.

Thanks,

William

www.keywi.org

[Hayl]

try searching the JL forums. there are _many_ threads on how to set up cd-burners.

[DerekKraan]

Originally posted by malloc
As for the config part, you need to have scsi-emulation enabled in the kernel and add "hdx=ide-scsi" to your bootloader (in the append=, part for lilo and the kernel/ part for grub). You then need to have ide-cd, ide-scsi, scsi_mod modules running (plz someone correct me if i'm wrong).
As for the best cd creation app i'll have to give my vote to k3b
. There you can read the docs and find out what other apps you need to install (mkisofs, cdrecord, cdrdao among others).
Happy burning :D

I don't think that you want ide-cd running. It'll hijack the device, and that's exactly what we don't want. We want scsi-cd to have the CD-RW. When this is all set up, try cdrecord -scanbus in the command line AS ROOT to see if your devices have been detected properly.

Oh yeah, other programs will have to access your CDROM from /dev/scd0(for the first one) and /dev/scd1(for the second one).

[keywi]

cdrecord -scanbus is saying that there is
cdrecord: no such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannon open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

I do the cdrecord dev=help and I don't know what I am looking at. A bunch of Transport names

William
www.keywi.org

[mdwatts]

Many of these JL forum search results for 'lilo append ide-scsi' (http://justlinux.com/forum/search.php?s=&action=showresults&searchid=760513&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending) will tell you exactly what you need to add to /etc/lilo.conf and to run /sbin/lilo after (both as root).

[keywi]

Well, thank you all who help. I got my cd burner working with k3b. But now I can't mount the drive with a data cd or a audio cd. Has the /dev changed? and i need to edit my fstab? am i on the right track? I have searched but i haven't found anything yet.
Thanks,
William
www.keywi.org

[doublec16]

This is the relevant line in my fstab. It might work for you too.

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

I can play audio CDs and mount it with a data CD.