[ale] CD burners

[Eric Z. Ayers]

In many cases in order to get an IDE CDROM burner to
work, you will have to turn on IDE/SCSI emulation.

the program I use is xcdroast, which uses 'cdrecord'  underneath.
xcdroast is a great GUI, but it is not all that hard to use cdrecord
to make a copy:

$ cat /dev/cdrom >cd_copy.iso
$ cdrecord dev 4,0 cd_copy.iso  # my SCSI CDR recorder is at SCSI tgt 4

seems to work just great for me!

-Eric.

Gary S. MacKay writes:
 > I have a PII450 machine running NT4 (no choice - work). I have a spare
 > 8gig drive I would like to dual boot with and of coarse, put linux on it.
 > I have an HP IDE/ATAPI cdrom burner in this machine. Is it possible to use
 > in linux, and if so, which program do I use to just copy cd's. (I also
 > have a regular 32x cdrom in this machine.) I don't want to do anything
 > fancy, just copy a cd no and then. Possible create cd images for storage
 > and burn them later, if that is possible.
 > 
 > - Gary