[Techtalk] HP 9100i CD-Writer on Mandrake 8.2

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 22 September 2003 5:00 pm, Brenda Bell wrote:
> Before I tear my hair out trying to find drivers, is any one successfully
> using an HP 9100i CD burner on Linux?
>
> If it's known to work, hints on finding the driver would be helpful as
> well.
>
> Thanks.

A lot of people report having problems getting the HP 9100i to work on Linux.

Try this, this gets into the guts of diagnosis and configuration. Oh yeah, and 
be sure to try writing CDs as root, cdrecord only works as root. Some 
graphical front-ends to cdrecord, like K3b, make it easy to give ordinary 
users write permissions.

Burning CDs on Linux
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-cdburn.html

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