IDE CD Burning

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

What software do i use to burn CDs on my IDE CD-RW? All te CD apps ive seen say i need a SCSI drive or to setup a virtual SCSI drive for my IDE drive. I don't like the sound of that, i get enough buffer underruns as it is. Back in FreeBSD i used burncd. Is there anything like that for LINUX?

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 4:01 pm Post subject:

You have to enable SCSI emulation support, SCSI support, and SCSI generic support in your kernel, as well as booting with "hdc=scsi" or whatever your CD-RW is.

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ckwall · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2002 Posts: 163

Can anyone refer me to any noobie instructions on burning a cd under Linux? I enabled SCSI emulation support, SCSI support, and SCSI generic support in my kernel. Where do I set up booting with "hdc=scsi"?

delta407 · Posted: Tue Jun 18, 2002 11:55 pm Post subject:

Change your /boot/grub/menu.lst; a line should end with "root=/dev/hda3" or something. Just add "hdc=scsi" to the end and reboot.

TheWart · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 1:51 am Post subject:

yea, that is correct, unless you have two ide drives (cd and cdrw), which it would then be hdd=scsi and so on down the alphabet.
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Houdini · Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2002 6:35 am Post subject: n00b guide to cd-burning

Hate to say it, but the CD-Writing-HOWTO is not bad. emerge howto-html if you haven't already, and take a look.
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gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

OK, i got it. One last question:
How do i burn an existing ISO w/ xcdroast. I had to do it w/ commandline cdrecord and thats a nuiscance.

wisdom · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 12:07 am Post subject:

I cant find scsi emualtion under IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices where is it?=)
I have gentoo-sources-r7

Does any cdr-prog for linux support smart-burn?

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

XCDRoast supports smart burn. As for finding scsi emulation etc. First go under "ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support" and then in there under "IDE,ATA and ATAPI Block devices" there enable "SCSI emulation support". After that go into "SCSI support" and enable "SCSI support" then "SCSI CD-ROM support" and "SCSI generic support". That should do it for you and don't forget to add the line append="hd*=ide-scsi" to the menu.list file in the Gentoo boot section for grub located in /boot (which has to be mounted to access it). Also some including my self had to enable "SCSI emulation" in the kernel as a module in which case you have to add the scsi module to modules.autoload in /etc. I tried compiling it straight into the kernel but it would not work. Oh the name of the scsi module is just "ide-scsi".

I may have it backwards with the scsi catogories in the kernel configuration. you may have to first go into SCSI support and enable SCSI support before emulation will show up.

wisdom · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 5:56 am Post subject:

Thanks! should th eline look like this
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
or this
append="hd*=ide-scsi"

billatq · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jun 2002 Posts: 96

I usually do

Oo.et.oO · Posted: Mon Jun 24, 2002 10:44 pm Post subject:

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

i've been having the same problem...could you clarify what the line in menu.lst is supposed to look like...i have

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 5:36 am Post subject:

That's in /boot/grub/menu.lst -- make sure to mount /boot first.

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

i'm not sure what you're saying, i think you misunderstood me. everything boots fine, but i dont know if i put the hdc=ide-scsi in the correct place or if there is something else i should add. sorry if i didn't make myself clear

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 5:45 am Post subject:

No, I undestood you. Run this:

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

i've done all that, and rebooted. but when i run xcdroast as root, it still doesn't find the cdrom. is the line in my original post in the correct format?

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 5:58 am Post subject:

Yeah... try changing it from ide-scsi to scsi and see what happens.

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

newp xcdroast still isn't able to find my cdrom. i'm gonna try changing the scsi emulation to a module as one of the other posts suggested.

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

changing scsi emulation to a module didn't help(yes module is loaded). So...now i'm stuck. any new ideas?

delta407 · Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2002 3:27 pm Post subject:

Your burner actually is /dev/hdd? Just checking...

dasalvagg · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2002 Posts: 183 Location: NY

hdc...and yes its right. i can mount it with /dev/hdc which annoys me...if i can read from it, i'd like to be able to burn with it too

Woolmonkey · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2002 Posts: 62

If you are having trouble with passing parameters when booting.
Which I did an easier way to be able to burn with your burner is to

1.Recompile the kernel without IDE cdrom support
2. enable scsi emulation
3.enable cdroms in scsi settiong and generic scsi support
now your cdroms are treated as scsi and you should be able to burn with it.
Hope this helps it did work for me

hannibal · n00b Joined: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 5

I have done what you suggested (recompiled the kernel, added hdd=scsi as a kernel parameter). It helped a bit - 'cdrecord -scanbus' recognizes my cdwriter properly now at 0,0,0 and I can write/erase cdr(w)s with gcombust. But now - how do I mount my cdrom drive?

There is no /dev/scd* file (I'm using devfs), there is only a file called 'generic' under /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 and no /dev/hdd file of course.

What could I do to get things going?
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