Re: GLUG: CD Burner

[Neil Thompson <abraxis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hugo,

You can find the latest rpms for cdrecord at
ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/rpms/cdrecord (or thereabouts).  You'll also
find rpms there for gcombust (obviously in the 'gcombust' directory :-).
Just remember that if you're using an IDE writer, you're going to have to
use the ide-scsi driver to access it.

For the unitiated (this took me a long time and a large number of words
which were not appropriate for polite company), the way I got this to work
was to add two lines to my /etc/modules.conf file -

options ide-cd ignore=/dev/hd<x> (where x is the letter for that drive)
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi

adding the following line to /etc/lilo.conf -

hd<x>=ide-scsi

running mkinitrd, and running lilo.

When you reboot the machine, you should see the writer being recognised as
part of the scsi detection.  Unfortunately, you'll also see it being
recognised about 8 times - there seems to be a but of confusion between
the multi-LUN system and the ide-scsi system.

Once all that is done, you can run cdrecord --scanbus under the root user
and you should see your writer.

Caveat:  This works for me under the severely bastardised
Mandrake6.1/RedHat6.0 system I have running at home - YMMV.

If anybody has any better ways of doing this - I'd appreciate it if you
could share them.


Cheers! (Relax...have a homebrew)

Neil


 On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Hugo Lombaard wrote:

> What software is the best to burn Bootable and Audio cd's on a HP 8100 with
> RedHat 6.0. I saw something about CDRECORD. What do you think? Where can I
> get the rpm?