Re: [SLUG] Burning CD

From: Jason Copenhaver (jcopenha@typedef.org)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 20:58:43 EDT


cdrecord --scanbus

On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, SOTL wrote:

> On Thursday 11 October 2001 12:46 am, Scott Piper wrote:
> > An easy way to burn an iso is by the command line
> >
> > all you have to know is the speed to burn at, the scsi device of your
> > drive (cdrecord -scanbus will give it), and the iso file to burn.
> > As an example, my writer is device 0,0, and I burn at 4x speed
> >
> > cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0 your_iso_file_name
> >
> > -v is verbose which tells you the progress, and -eject will eject the CD
> > after it is written.
> >
> >
> > scott
> >
> > for non iso files, you can use mkisofs from tfhe command line to make an
> > iso image and then burn it, or the graphical front ends should pick up the
> > files (as long as you have permission to access them).
> >
> >
> > btw, you can look at, copy, run things from, etc an iso image by mounting
> > it using the loopback device and an empty directory for a mount point.
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 -o loop the_iso_image the_mountpoint_directory
> >
> >
>
> Thanks Scott, Glen, All
>
> I just tried this as root and received the message that the CD R/W is not
> device 0,0 or 0,0,0
>
> Both Scott and Glen have almost exactly the same response as Glen but there
> is one difference.
>
> For you dev=0,0
> For him dev=0,0,0
>
> And I seem to recall from prevous motzing on my part that it is not 0,0 or
> 0,0,0 but something with 1's in it.
>
> How does one determin what the correct device adress is?
>
> Thanks
> Frank
>
>



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