[H-GEN] CD burner for Linux

Stuart Longland stuartl at longlandclan.hopto.org
Tue Mar 11 05:49:16 EST 2003


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Tony Nugent wrote:
> All scsi burners will work out of the box.
Yep, I can verify this because we've had no problems using our old
Matsushita 8xread /4xwrite CD-R burner (50-pin SCSI interface).

>
> At the moment the ide/ATAPI drives need to be used with the kernel's
> ide-scsi driver to work with cdrecord, but native ide/atapi support
> for cdrw devices will be there in the forthcoming 2.6.x kernel.
>
I'll vouch for that, I never quite got our IDE CD-ROM recognised by
X-CDRoast, but I've solved the problem by replacing it with a SCSI
CD-ROM (of slightly faster speed).  Linux 2.6 is looking nice, I can't
wait for it to be released.

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