Specifications

2.Setup the Linux−system for writing CD−ROMs

This section applies to the following types of CD−writers: SCSI, IDE/ATAPI and the devices for the parallel

port. USB CD−writers are not supported as of May 2000. Non−SCSI writers require compatibility drivers,

which make them appear as if they were real SCSI devices. On the one side such a unifying strategy is easy

("everything is SCSI"), because on the application level you can share your knowledge with other users

regardless of their kind of CD−writer. On the other side, you have to reconfigure applications like audio CD

players or the mount utility to reflect the change of the driver name. For example, if you accessed your

ATAPI CD−writer through the device file /dev/hdc before, you will have to access it through /dev/scd0 after

activating the SCSI compatibility drivers.

Once you succeed setting up your hardware and the rest of your Linux−system, the command cdrecord

−scanbus shows you a list of devices on your SCSI busses. The goal of this section is to guide you in

setting up your Linux−system, so that you finally end up seeing something like:

shell> cdrecord −scanbus

scsibus0:

0,0,0) 'Quantum ' 'XP34300 ' 'F76D' Disk

0,1,0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST11200N ' '8334' Disk

0,2,0) *

0,3,0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'MK537FB/ ' '6258' Disk

0,4,0) 'WANGTEK ' '5150ES SCSI 36 ' 'ESB6' Removable Tape

0,5,0) 'EXABYTE ' 'EXB−8500−85QUE ' '0428' Removable Tape

0,6,0) 'TOSHIBA ' 'XM−3401TASUNSLCD' '3593' Removable CD−ROM

0,7,0) *

scsibus1:

1,0,0) 'Quantum ' 'XP31070W ' 'L912' Disk

1,1,0) *

1,2,0) *

1,3,0) 'TEAC ' 'CD−R55S ' '1.0H' Removable CD−ROM

1,4,0) 'MATSHITA' 'CD−R CW−7502 ' '4.02' Removable CD−ROM

1,5,0) *

1,6,0) 'YAMAHA ' 'CDR400t ' '1.0d' Removable CD−ROM

1,7,0) *

Listing: Detecting devices on your SCSI bus

The example was provided by Jörg Schilling and shows a total of four CD−writers. Please note that −scanbus

also reports other devices, e.g. regular CD−ROMs and hard disk drives. The last column gives the SCSI

description of the device, from which you cannot clearly distinguish ordinary CD−ROM drives from those

with burning capability. But the product identification (middle column) often has hints about the feature in

form of a R, −R or −RW.

CD−Writing HOWTO

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