using optical drives these days

[Andrew Konosky]

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:

>i haven't really researched how to burn stuff in linux since maybe 4 years
>ago with my 8x cd burner.  it was pretty straightforward then:  emulate
>scsi with ide, then learn how to use cdrecord.
>
>4 years later i have a dvd burner (8x nec 2500a) and things aren't quite as
>simple as i remember them being.  i tried to research the subject using
>google and found some disheartening topics...
>
>https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124098
>
>http://www.fokus.fhg.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
>"Both RedHat and SuSE publish bastardized and defective variants of cdrtools
>in their distributions. 
> If you have problems on RedHat or SuSE systems, first fetch a recent
>original cdrtools source, compile it yourself 
> and run the original instead of broken software that illegally claims to be
>cdrecord."
>
>i've tried to get it working using my now defunct knowledge of cdrecord.
>
>[root at semaphore cjb]# dvdrecord -scanbus
>dvdrtools v0.1.4
>Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux <bero at arklinux.org>
>Based on:
>Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�g
>Schilling
>dvdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open
>SCSI driver.
>dvdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
>root.
>
>what gives?  cdrecord -scanbus works fine.
>
>dvdrecord speed=5 dev=1,1,0 -dummy /tmp/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN.iso
>dvdrtools v0.1.4
>Portions (c) 2002-2003 Ark Linux <bero at arklinux.org>
>Based on:
>Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�g
>Schilling
>scsidev: '1,1,0'
>scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0
>dvdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open
>SCSI driver.
>dvdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are
>root.
>
>also "cdrecord -prcap dev=/dev/cdrom1" tells me that my max write speed for
>dvd+-r is 4x.  what the hell, my dvd burner is an 8x burner and works fine
>at that speed in windows.
>
>luckily k3b abstracts away all this technical bs for me, but still even k3b
>errors out when i try to burn at 8x: :-( Failed to change write speed:
>5408->10816.
>
>can anyone give any good info on how to write dvd+-r in fedora core 2 and
>why it only writes at 4x in linux?
>
>thank you for the help.
>
>
>  
>
K3B is an awesome CD burning GUI application that is the equivalent of 
Roxio/Adaptec or better in Winblows. I would recommend you try it out...