[Techtalk] CD-Writer compatibility in RH7.3

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:24:13AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
linda ling thought:
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> Dear members,
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>    i would like to get a new CD-Writer so that i can burn my KDevelop 
> program into CD and post them online to the mailing list from Window XP.I am 
> facing problem with my external USB Aztech UM9800 modem.I couldn't configure 
> it in RH7.3and it seems that it's not compatible.

If you're dual booting WinXP and RH, you could create a FAT32 partition
and use that to transfer files between RH and WinXP.  Alternatively, there
are programs available for Win32 to allow ext2/3 filesystems to be read.

>    Right now,the only way i can think of is to burn the program into cd.Can 
> anyone tell me what brand of CD-Writer has the driver compatible with RH7.3 
> and the least configure job.I'm really stuck coz this is my only hope.Please 
> offer me with advices.Advices are greatly welcome.Thank you.

Any IDE CDRW drive should work.  Simply add "append hdc=ide-scsi" below
the  "kernel=" line in your /etc/lilo.conf and run 'lilo' to install or
add "hdc=ide-scsi" directly to the "kernel=" line in your /etc/grub.conf.
This assumes you install the CDRW as Secondary Master "hdc".  If you
install it elsewhere, adjust hdc accordingly.  

Once this is done (you'll need to reboot for the kernel to use the
ide-scsi module), run 'cdrecord -scanbus' to locate the CDRW drive.  you
should see output including a line of the form:

scsibus0:
        0,0,0       0)  'Manufacturer' 'model' 'version' Removable CDROM

the "0,0,0" is the important bit here.  Edit /etc/cdrecord.conf and add a
line at the bottom that looks like this:

cd-model=   0,0,0 cd-speed fifo-size driver-opts

Mine is

phillips=  0,0,0  2  -1 ""

and set CDR_DEVICE=cd-model CDR_SPEED=cd-speed further up the file.  This
sets everything up for cdrecord to use your CDRW drive.

I've an all singing, all dancing CD writing script available at
http://members.geocities.com/conor_daly which will write the contents of a
specified directory to CD.

Conor 
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