On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:28, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 11:19:59PM +1200, cr wrote: > > On Tuesday 08 July 2003 11:08, Daniel Teichert wrote: > > > I apologize since this is probably either redundant, wrong or > > > both--I've deleted the rest of the thread. I just discovered > > > that I didn't actually need the ide-scsi stuff to do cd burning; > > > on my unstable box: > > > > > > cdrecord -v ATAPI: -scanbus > > > > > > ...gives me a device list with my ATAPI cd writer in it, and: > > > > Hmm, I just get: > > > > cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for 'ATAPI:'. > > > > But I'm using Woody, maybe your version of cdrecord is a newer one? > > Mine's 1.10. > > You need to be using sid for this, not woody, with kernel 2.4.21 IIRC. > > > > cdrecord -v ATAPI:0,0,0 blank=fast cdrom.iso > > > > > > ...burns the .iso. > > > > > > Once again, apologies in advance for irrelevance. > > > > No, not irrelevant, I'm sure I'd heard somewhere that newer versions of > > (some) cd-writers had been developed to use IDE/ATAPI directly rather > > than only SCSI. > > CD writers have been mostly IDE-ATAPI rather than SCSI for years... > ATAPI basically involves sending SCSI-style commands over an IDE bus. > Hence the need for the scsi emulation layer in the kernel. I think > what you're thinking of is that the very latest kernels have a driver > specifically for talking to ATAPI CD-RWs, that "does everything in one > go" and so doesn't need the rest of the SCSI modules there to support > it; and the very latest cdrecord knows about this. To get these > very-latest versions in Debian you need to be using sid and kernel > 2.4.21.
OK, that would probably be what I was thinking of. But I feel cautious (with my first attempt at debian) so I'll stick with Woody for now. Regards cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
