[ale] cdrecording problems

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 19:20, Geoffrey wrote:
> Jim Lynch wrote:
> > What version of Linux and what distro?  There are some strange things 
> > going on with kernel 2.6.x.  I had to actually put the device name in 
> > the -dev option.
> 
> Running 2.6.8 here and k3b fires up cdrecord as follows:
> 
> cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd ....
> 
> Also, the dev and speed options don't have a leading '-'  I don't know 
> if that makes a difference as I've not tried it, but I know the 
> following works:
> 
> cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd speed=12

The options that have a parameter (and thus an "=") don't start with a
"-" while the standalone options like -eject do.

BTW: Even for a gnomie like myself, K3B is a pretty slick app. It really
has that JustWorks (tm) stuff going well.
> 
> And the man page reflects these are the proper options for cdrecord.
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