Rob schreef: > At 10:35 AM 6/9/2005, Rob wrote: > >> At 04:50 AM 6/9/2005, you wrote: >> >>> Govind Chandra schreef: >>> > Just installed Gentoo 2005.0. >>> > >>> > cdrecord -scanbus says there are issues with kernel 2.5 and newer. >>> > >>> > Is there any way of writing CDs in Gentoo 2005.0? >>> > >>> > Govind >>> > >>> > >>> >>> Of course there is... don't you think you'd have heard about it if none >>> of us could write CD's and DVDs? I mean, that would be *news* ;-) . >>> >>> That message is... well, not untrue, but misleading. We've been beyond >>> the 2.5 stage long enough that while the "issues" are not "fixed" (due >>> to the developer of cdrecord being in philosophical conflict with the >>> kernel devs), they have long ago had workarounds developed for them. >>> >>> So CD recording works fairly normally under Linux-- certainly under X, >>> where there are several frontends available that record such media >>> reliably. Under the console, a read-through of the man pages is in order >>> due to 1) specific settings needed to run cdrecord using an ATAPI >>> recorder rather than a SCSI one; 2) additional programs needed to record >>> DVDs (rather than CDs) or special formats (like ISOs). But it's all >>> pretty straightforward, and works well (I haven't burned a coaster in >>> months). >>> >>> What precisely is the problem you're having? >>> >>> Holly >>> -- >>> [email protected] mailing list > > Dear list, > > Here is my experience: I followed the kernel warnings that ide-scsi was > depricated, then found out that most of the burner programs would not > work or worked lousy with an ide ATAPI interface. So I went back to the > hdc=ide-scsi kernel option. I would like to, however, follow the > correct procedure, that is, use an ide atapi interface, only it didn't > work out for me the first time. Any help or advice would be appreciated. > > Sincerely, Rob. >
What kernel was this under, and what kernel are you using now? In the very early days of 2.6, one really had to explicitly run ide-cd (the replacement for ide-scsi) in order to get things working, but again, we are far beyond that now. Ide-cd is automatically compiled into the kernel (you don't even get to choose it, it's just there), and /dev/hdc (assuming that that's where your CD/DVD burner is) will use it when it is detected to be a writeable device during the boot process. So again, I ask what precisely your issue is.... what goes wrong when you try to burn a CD or DVD? What commands are you using to do so, and what type of disk are you trying to create (a bootable ISO? a data disk? a SVCD? an audio disk)? If we knew that, maybe we'd know where to start looking for a misconfiguration or missing backend subsystem. Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
