On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 10:36, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > I'm trying to get the latest version of xcdroast (0.98alpha15) to work > with fedora 3. Running it "as is" gives the message: > > "You have selected an ATAPI device as your CD-writer. This is not a > recommended setup -- you will experience long delays and bad writing > performance. See the FAQ..." > > The FAQ suggests using SCSI emulation. I've added "hdc=ide-scsi" to the > kernel line in grub.conf. Running "cdrecord --scanbus" shows: > > scsibus1: > 1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX215E1 ' 'SYS2' Removable CD-ROM > > So far, so good.... I believe the next step is to add the line: > > options ide-cd ignore=hdc > > to the /etc/modules.conf file. But that file is not part of the fedora > 3 distribution. > > Where do I go from here? Do I add the "options" line (or something like > it) to /etc/modprobe.conf? Or is some other cd burning program with a > gui recommended for use with this distribution? > > Thanks for the help! > Gerhard, You may want to take a look at k3b. I've had good success with both CDs and DVDs. There has been chatter on the Fedora lists about errors verifying the md5sum of the media, but the errors seem to related to the application and in fact the CD was burned correctly. Remove the hdc=ide-scsi from the kernel command line. cdrecord will work without it, if you use dev=/dev/hdc instead of the ide-scsi specific dev=1,0,0. If you want to try xcdroast, I suggest using the ATAPI device(s) when you configure it, but I have not tried it. Bob...
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