Subject: Re: oh, and about CDR...
From: Phil Kirschner (pak1@cec.wustl.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 16 2000 - 09:38:20 MST
I need to get cdrecord onto my system before I try to install
something that uses it. When I tried to install it last night, it
wasn't compiling right, so I think I may have downloaded the wrong
one. Could you point me to the file (exactly) that I need? My drive
is on the list of supported drives for cdrecord 1.8, so that seems to
be the appropriate one.
Also, my question about checking to see if the drive works at all has
nothing to do with burning the CD's. I just want to know if I should
be able to mount it and read from it. It is currently marked as ID 5
on the SCSI chain, so I assumed that since I had to turn on sg in my
kernel (as per instruction from others) that I could do:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sg5 /mnt/burner
...but it says that /dev/sg5 is not a valid blck device.
Any suggestions? I am really appreciating all of this help.
>Most of the CD recording packages actually are a nice interface to drive
>the "cdrecord" program gcombust, which I use, is such a setup. For a
>list of drives supported by cdrecord see
>
>http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/p
>rivate/cdwriters-1.8.html
>
>Phil Kirschner wrote:
> >
> > Is there an easy way to tell if my drive works at all without
> > installing the software, which is not working for me? It is plugged
> > in externally, and I do have SCSI_Generic active in my kernel....
> >
> > >Try looking here for a variety:
> > >
> > >http://freshmeat.net/appindex/x11/cd%20writing%20software.html
> > >http://freshmeat.net/search.php3?query=cdr
> > >
> > >I've been real happy with gcombust:
> > >
> > >http://www.abo.fi/~jmunsin/gcombust/
> > >
> > >Phil Kirschner wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone recommend a good program for burning CD's? I don't have
> > > > anything like that installed now, so I would need an entire
> > > > (preferable X11) package.
> > > >
> > > > "Today's CS lecture will be conducted entirely through the medium of
> > > > interpretive dance."
> > > > -Something I've always wanted to hear but never will.
> > >
> > >--
> > >---
> > >Ed Jaeger
> > >
> > >"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my
> > >life to interpret my dreams."
> > >
> > > -- Susan Sontag
> >
> > "Today's CS lecture will be conducted entirely through the medium of
> > interpretive dance."
> > -Something I've always wanted to hear but never will.
>
>--
>---
>Ed Jaeger
>
>"I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my
>life to interpret my dreams."
>
> -- Susan Sontag
"Today's CS lecture will be conducted entirely through the medium of
interpretive dance."
-Something I've always wanted to hear but never will.
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