Getting A CD Writer to Work in fedora...

Shawn McCuan mccuan at wave3.org
Fri Jan 21 03:38:00 UTC 2005


actually though - i am wondering what program is best suited for playing
DVD's....any suggestions?

On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 22:28 -0500, Shawn McCuan wrote:

> 
> actually, i have already got it working now with help from another
> member of the list. You are correct though, my drives are using ATA
> instead of SCSI.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 21:12 -0600, David Hoffman wrote: 
> 
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:09:09 -0500, Shawn McCuan <mccuan at wave3.org> wrote:
> > > I am new to Fedora. I just started using it Yesterday as a matter of fact.
> > > Im not a complete "newblet" to Linux, i have been using Linux for about 4
> > > months now. I have yet to be able to get my TDK CD-Burner to work. What
> > > programs, settings, configurations, etc. would I need to change in order to
> > > get my CD-Burner to work?
> > > 
> > 
> > You don't mention what you have tried. cdrecord should probably work,
> > but you would have to find the device number. Try running "cdrecord
> > -scanbus" and it will tell you what the device number is (something
> > like 0,0,0 or 1,0,0).
> > 
> > Then you would probably want to do something like:
> > mkisofs -r /directory_path | cdrecord -v --eject driveropts=burnfree dev=1,0,0 -
> >  --- OR ---
> > I think your drive uses ATA instead of SCSI, so you would change the
> > dev argument like this:
> > mkisofs -r /directory_path | cdrecord -v --eject driveropts=burnfree
> > dev=ATA:1,0,0 -
> 
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