Re: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?
If I can add to the excellent advice Kaj gives :- 1/ Kaj suggests defining both the CD-RW and the CD-ROM as ide-scsi. It is not strictly necessary for the CD-ROM to be ide-scsi, but it allows front ends to perform disc to disc copy functions. You may find however that your desktop CD icon no longer works. To fix it, right click on the icon PropertiesDevice, and in the device drop down box select /dev/scd0 (or scd1 as appropriate) 2/ You will have trouble using cdburning software as anything other than root unless you create a group called 'cdwriter' and make yourself and any others who need to create CDs members of that group. You then need to give cdwriter group privileges for the following applications (all in /usr/bin) cdrecord cdda2wav cdparanoia mkisofs readcd You can test your cd burner by opening a user terminal and typing cdrecord --scanbus If it finds your CD writer then cd burning should work. HTH derek On Monday 18 March 2002 23:37, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: snip I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn Can someone help by telling me if my /etc/fstab entry is correct, and the command line parameters to use to make the CD burner operate from the command line? /snip Thanks in advance... This has been a frustrating problem! -drew Well -drew, here's my personal how-to : Most - if not all - CD-burners are ATAPI-devices and use the IDE-bus. To make them work under linux, you must fake that they are SCSI-devices. Now, assuming you have connected your hardware correctly, let's take a look at my setup as an example : My CD-Rom (reader/player) is connected as the master on the second IDE-bus (hdc). My CD-WRITER (burner) is connected as the slave on the second IDE-bus (hdd). Accordingly, I had to edit my file : /etc/lilo.conf to make everything work. Here's how it can be done : 1. open a terminal and become root (type su and, when prompted, type your root-password) 2. open a text-editor of your choice (I prefer Midnight Commander - type : mc) 3. go to /etc/lilo.conf and hit F4 to edit that file. 4. here you must make an append-statement (a boot-parameter to linux), like this : image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount vga=791 read-only # (where hdc is my CD-reader and hdd is my CD-burner (eventually, put in your own configuration)). 5. hit F2 to save this file. 6. hit F10 to exit Midnight Commander 7. still in your terminal-window as root, type : /sbin/lilo (and watch the output). 8. type exit twice. 9. reboot, and you are done ! - (Eventually, you can now check the file /etc/fstab) Enjoy ! A very easy-readable guide on CD-burning : http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article227.shtml References : CD Writing Howto: http://linuxdoc.org Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO: http://linuxdoc.org (How to make normal audio CDs from mp3 files ) USB CD howto: http://mobilix.org/linux_usb_cd.html Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:48:01 -0500, Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] spoke thusly: ...with the excellent FREE backup tools Mondo/Mindi. Why do you keep saying that? Just curious, Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?
Title: RE: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 12:51 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use? I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn to the CD... There was a CD reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool from the command line. I'd also like the burner to work from within X, but my main concern is that it burns from the command line, since the machine is primarily a server. HardDrake 0.9.3 reports the burner under CD-ROMS as Unknown LITE-ON LTR-12101B (the Unknown is for the Vendor), Device /dev/hdc, with a Bus Type of ATAPI/IDE. My /etc/fstab entry for the CD is: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec,codepage=850,nodev 0 0 ...but I don't know for sure if that's right for the burner. It was what was in there when the previous CD reader was installed. So, what I've been trying to do is to use Mondo/Mindi to create a test CD image (saved as an iso file), which I would then like to burn to the CD burner using CDRECORD (the tool specified by Mondo/Mindi). I don't know what command line parameters to pass to CDRECORD... Can someone help by telling me if my /etc/fstab entry is correct, and the command line parameters to use to make the CD burner operate from the command line? Thanks in advance... This has been a frustrating problem! -drew Drew, the fstab entry is showing ro for read only, and should be rw IIRC. Also go to your lilo config and add at append line hdc=ide-scsi That should link the cdrw to the scsi emulation. Run /sbin/lilo from command line and then I think you have to reboot. That should then allow you to burn.
Re: [newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?
Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) wrote: snip I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn Can someone help by telling me if my /etc/fstab entry is correct, and the command line parameters to use to make the CD burner operate from the command line? /snip Thanks in advance... This has been a frustrating problem! -drew Well -drew, here's my personal how-to : Most - if not all - CD-burners are ATAPI-devices and use the IDE-bus. To make them work under linux, you must fake that they are SCSI-devices. Now, assuming you have connected your hardware correctly, let's take a look at my setup as an example : My CD-Rom (reader/player) is connected as the master on the second IDE-bus (hdc). My CD-WRITER (burner) is connected as the slave on the second IDE-bus (hdd). Accordingly, I had to edit my file : /etc/lilo.conf to make everything work. Here's how it can be done : 1. open a terminal and become root (type su and, when prompted, type your root-password) 2. open a text-editor of your choice (I prefer Midnight Commander - type : mc) 3. go to /etc/lilo.conf and hit F4 to edit that file. 4. here you must make an append-statement (a boot-parameter to linux), like this : image=/boot/vmlinuz label=Linux root=/dev/hda2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append= hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi devfs=nomount vga=791 read-only # (where hdc is my CD-reader and hdd is my CD-burner (eventually, put in your own configuration)). 5. hit F2 to save this file. 6. hit F10 to exit Midnight Commander 7. still in your terminal-window as root, type : /sbin/lilo (and watch the output). 8. type exit twice. 9. reboot, and you are done ! - (Eventually, you can now check the file /etc/fstab) Enjoy ! A very easy-readable guide on CD-burning : http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/January2002/article227.shtml References : CD Writing Howto: http://linuxdoc.org Linux MP3 CD Burning mini-HOWTO: http://linuxdoc.org (How to make normal audio CDs from mp3 files ) USB CD howto: http://mobilix.org/linux_usb_cd.html Kaj Haulrich Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
