Configuring my CD burner

[Lend273]

Maximum Linux had an article last month on configuring a CD burner in Linux.
It basically involved fooling the system to think it was a SCSI drive.
Is this the way to do it? Has anyone tried this method? Is it difficult to do?
Is there an easier way? Thanks again for the info........ you guys are always a great help.

[gmoreno]

Yep thats the way you have to do it. Or atleast thats the way I got my bro's setup. You have to remove atapi-cdrom support and add scsi emulation to the kernel. Then d/l cdrecord or something like that... Follow the article...

[fuzzy]

Originally posted by gmoreno:
Yep thats the way you have to do it. Or atleast thats the way I got my bro's setup. You have to remove atapi-cdrom support and add scsi emulation to the kernel. Then d/l cdrecord or something like that... Follow the article...

Yup. That's how it's done. SCSI emulation is the way to the burn!

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[Gotenks]

Back when I was using drake 6.5 I was able to do it and burn cd's fine. Though, with Mandrake 7.2 it seems to auto-setup the ide-scsi emulation, though I have yet to burn a cd without it failing =)

[Gweedo]

Real Burners are SCSI http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/tongue.gif

[KumaSan]

I'm using drake 7.1 and it set up scsi emulation for my cd-rw automatically. It's been running great since I installed it.

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[pbharris]

hello,
here is my canned response:
typically there is no need to compile kernel (every distribution I have used has the modules already installed, these are RedHat, Slackware and Debian) , just load proper modules, edit your lilo.conf file. here is how i did it. any atapi/mmc compliant cdrw should work.I have one cdrom (hdc), one cd writer (the hp 8100, aka hdd). i use xcdroast for toasting software. I use hdc to rip music, to do this with xcdroast scsi emulation needs to be on for it too, if the drive is atapi/mmc compliant then no problems. i could use the burner to rip music, but it is slower and much more expensive than the plain old cd-rom.

1. edit lilo.conf add (or edit) line so it says append=" hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" this needs to be done in the section under
image=/boot/vlinuz

2. in /dev/ delete any linck to cdrom and create links to the drives files (which will be scsi) i.e. rm /dev/cdrom

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom1
ln -s /dev/scd1 /dev/cdrom2

3. run /sbin/lilo

4. install xcdroast

5. reboot.

6. insert modules for scsi emulation. These are ide-scsi and sg.
insmod ide-scsi
insmod sg

7. use xcdroast setup program and burn CDs.

[kedman]

HI All
I had the cd burning working fine in a default Rh9 install.
But now it seems to go through the motions ( and fix the disk!) But there is no data on the disk although it is fixed.
Is it possible as I drag the file's into the burn window I'm somehow creating a sym link and not copying the actual files?
Sound's strange but the app seems to do all it should, just no data there.
Any ideas anyone?
( for all the windoze fans out there nero seems to have problems in win2k when you set up a root and user accounts!! works fine in single user mode!)

Cheers
kedman
:)