[ale] cdr problems

[Mark Hurley]

Have had NO problems with cdrecord...

Actually, my luck falls exactly the opposite way.  On a PII266, I have
an HP8110i, have burned numerous CD's using cdrecord and have yet to
have a bad burn.  And I was quite skeptical at first, having used ONLY
Adaptec's software on windows.

However, under a PII300 using Adaptec's software on windows, it seemed
like always having to ensure the latest firmware, drivers and software
was in place...and then pray.  (this is partially attributed to my
expensive purchase when these puppies were new, and everyone was using
the terrible Zip drives. :) )

I have been very surprised that no errors have occurred on Linux.
What began as a test, has kept the burner permanently installed on the
Linux box.

Check out this link on the CD burn HowTo:

  http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

Also...have attached a sample script which I run to ensure my IDE CD
player is properly configured to begin burning.  (it's attached)  The
script is taken from the HOWTO.

Have fun!

Mark Hurley

On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 10:15:08PM -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I turn more CDs into coasters by using cdrecord than I do by using Adaptec
> in Windows.  I starting to believe it is a xcombination of my 3 year old
> HP7200i and ide-scsi.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James P. Kinney III [mailto:jkinney at localnetsolutions.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:02 PM
> To: Ken Nagorski
> Cc: Atlanta Linux User Group (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: [ale] cdr problems
> 
> 
> AARRGGHH! Modules and IDE CD burners!
> 
> I am running the devfs stuff so my setup is a bit different.
> I also gave up and compiled in my generic scsi driver. So now I have a
> device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic that has a symlink
> /dev/sg0 pointing to it. Miracles happen and cdrecord works!
> 
> Try scrapping the pre-install lines and just run a modprobe sg. That
> should install the sg driver and everything it depends on in the proper
> order.
> 
> If only scsi were as affordable as IDE...
> 
> On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 19:42, Ken Nagorski wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Has anyone played with IDE cdr's? I have on and this is the deal, whenever
> > I run `cdrecord -scanbus` I get this error.
> >
> > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jrg Schilling
> > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
> > root.
> >
> >
> > But this is what dmesg shows,
> >
> > hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache, DMA
> >
> > So with that said, let me tell you where I am at. I have this in the
> > /etc/modules.conf
> >
> > options ide-cd ignore=hdd            # tell the ide-cd module to ignore
> > hdb
> > alias scd0 sr_mod                    # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> > pre-install sg     modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
> > pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
> > pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd   before ide-scsi
> >
> >
> > Now there is a little problem, I am not huge on using modules however,
> > shouldn't those load when I boot? Did I do something wrong? Cause I see no
> > modules when first boot. If I load all of those by hand I still get the
> > error. Hmm?
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thank you
> > Ken
> >
> >
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