On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 02:20, Clint Harshaw wrote: > > I don't mean to be a pest, but can you send me a pointer to exactly > > where you have explained how to burn CDs under FC2. A modest search of > > the archives hasn't turned up anything. Ditto /usr/src/linux/README and > > the files under /usr/src/linux/Documentation. > > > > The latest cdrecord upgrade has completely broken CD burning on my > > system; the last audio CD is **quite** amusing and not unpleasant to > > listen to, but nothing like the original sound. > > > > Many thanks for all your good postings: > > > > Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > I'm not clear on what you're needing help with: the specifics of how to > use cdrecord (or the much easier to use k3b), or is your problem > associated with the "can't burn as a non-root user in kernel 2.6.8.x"? > > k3b is very intuitive and does a nice job burning cds with a minimum of > fuss. However if you are using the 2.6.8.x kernel, you can't burn as a > non-root user. Your choices are to either a) su to the root user and > burn away, or b) boot into an earlier kernel. > > This tutorial may be of some help: > http://penguinsolutions.org/fedora/cdrw/ > > Here's a trick I've used to help teach myself the necessary cdrecord > commands: burn in k3b, but make a note of the output log. It provides > the specific cdrecord command that k3b created to get the job done. I've been making CDs with a little script, from which I use the single line: cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -dao -useinfo *.wav This has always worked in the past. I've also used the front end gcombust, which has also generally worked OK Lately, I've noticed the following things: o "cdrecord -scanbus" produces the line 1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DRU-510A ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM but "cdrecord dev=1,1,0 -inq" produces the lines scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0 cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. "cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -inq" produces info that looks correct. o When I try to burn a CD-ROM using the line cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -dao -useinfo *.wav #or similar and with /usr/bin/cdrecord setuid to root I get messages, the gist of which are DAO mode, or SAO mode, or RAW mode are not available. o When I tried to burn an audio CD-ROM as root, I crashed the X server and some other daemons. (I'm not sure which ones, they flashed past me while robooting the system.) The CD generated in this process got the correct entry from the cddb database, but sounded **very** strange. I've just installed k3b, but haven't had a chance to use it yet. It looks from your little web site: http://penguinsolutions.org/fedora/cdrw/cdrw.html that Linux-2.6.8 is well and truly broken, and that the best thing to do is to downgrade to 2.6.7. Other people say all kinds of things about installing, or **not** installing the ide-scsi module. It may also be that cdrdao, which can be invoked by k3b works better than cdrecord; I haven't had time to try this yet. Alex Dalloz claims to have posted solutions multiple times, but I can't find his postings anywhere in the archive. The situation is complicated because cdrecord has recently been upgraded as well as the kernel. As near as I can figure out, the reason for the upgrade is to have cdrecord drop privilege when invoking child processes, which it can do in some cases, using the RSH environment variable. Many Thanks - jon
