[H-GEN] CD Burner software

[Sarah Hollings]

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David Munn wrote:
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> Hi All.....
> I have scored a LITE-ON  CD-RW  burner with a E-IDE ATAPI interface......of 
> course it came with software for that other o/s that crashes.......
> I have tried to use Gnome Toaster but the  cdrecord program says its looking 
> for a scsi driver .......
> Does anyone know of drivers for the above hardware or ones that will work with 
> a E-IDE burner......
> Im running RED HAT 8 on a Pentium 200.....
> 
> Any help or tips would be appreciated...
> 
> David Munn
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Most everything you need to know is here:

    http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

Your kernel will probably have the scsi-ide emulation stuff compiled in so
its probably just a matter of passing in a parameter at boot time to tell
it which device to emulate as a scsi, and loading a few modules.

I've set up ide burners on a few linux boxen and the procedure described in the above
doco works very well.

Before you go racing into the gui's, I suggest you use and understand the command
line tools mkisofs (or mkhybrid) and cdrecord.

Rgds,
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