On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Edenyard wrote: > Anyway - Lite-on's customer support seems unable or unwilling to > answer my query about whether firmware upgrades for the CD-RW can be > made available to run under DOS or Linux. Does anyone here know anything > about this?
At http://wt.xpilot.org/cgi-bin/winni/lsc-orig.pl there are four models of Lite-on reported to work under Linux using cdrecord. > Also, does anyone have any experience on CD-RW either using > DOS or Linux - I gather Glenn's was CD-R, not CD-RW? I've been burning CDs with Linux for well over a year now. I have a Yamaha CRW8424E (reading between the lines, that's 24x Read, 8x Write, and 4x Rewrite) This is an IDE drive, but in order to use it under Linux, you need to treat it as a SCSI burner. There's a lot of reading to go along with that, but essentially it boils down to a few simple steps. Into /etc/conf.modules, add these lines: alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0 alias scsi_hostadaptor ide-scsi # SCSI host adaptor emulation options ide-cd ignore=hdb # if /dev/hdb is your CD-writer Then either manually, or in the init process, you need to install a couple kernel modules (assuming you haven't compiled a kernel with these built-in): insmod /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/sg.o insmod /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/scsi/ide-scsi.o That's basically all there is to "getting ready" to burn a CD. After that, the steps taken for the actual write process will vary according to whether you're writing data or music, which cdr software you're using, and whether your machine is fast enough to pipe data directly from mkisofs to cdrecord. I tried Xcdroast at two different version numbers and never could get it working. Interestingly, it was mostly the docs for that GUI burner where I learned how to do it on the CLI. There are other GUI burners you can try, but I usually prefer the CLI method, since it generally has a lower failure rate. ;-) I've only scanned a few selected parts of this document, but it seems to be quite comprehensive. http://www.linux.com/howto/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html - Steve
