Linux newbie needs help on getting CD-RW to work

[StevenT]

Hi, I just ventured into the world of Linux with Mandrake 8.1. I've managed to get most everything working, but can't seem to get any CD burning software to work. I have one CDRW and one CD ROM drive. I can mount both of them, however, when I try to setup a burning program such as XCDRoast, it only displays the CDRW drive and not the CDRom drive. So I guess I have several questions:

1) what CD burning program do people recommend. I would like something that is easy to use and effective in creating audio and data CD's.
2) How do I set up the program, including what do I have to do to get the program to recognize my CDRom drive?

If anyone could answer any of the above or point me in the right direction to where I can find a good up to date Howto document, I would really appreciate it.

thanks :confused:

[msobik]

Steven,

I use and recommend XCDRoast. I've always run it w/out any problems and have both a CD-ROM and a CD-RW. Sorry, I can't help you debug your problem, though. You might want to try some of the HOWTOs on www.linuxdoc.org. (http://www.linuxdoc.org.) I know there's one about IDE-SCSI emulation.

Mike

[Col. Panic]

Yeah, you're gonna need to set up IDE-SCSI emulation. You'll need to install the ide-scsi module and then edit your lilo.conf to tell it to recognize both the cd-rom and the cdr as such. Once both have scsi emulation going, you should be able to select the cd-rom as a source through the setup menu in xcdroast.

The step-by-step (for the most part) should be in the CD-Writing-HOWTO. (Try /usr/doc/Linux_HOWTOs/)

Good luck!