[WBEL-users] CD Record / DVD Record

[Amit Joshi]

Hello,

I spent quite some time last night getting the my DV/CD writer to work. I
hope this note will help others.

Setup:
Machine: AMD64 machine with an ATA (Pioneer) DVD+/-RW, CDRW etc., ATA hard
disk and SATA drives.
OS: Whitebox Linux with all the updates applied.

I compiled k3b and tried to burn an ISO image. It fails in the cdrecord
program with some sense errors. I tried various versions of the cdrecord
program and they all failed similarly. Finally I discovered that the key is
that though the cdrecord program seems to see the ATA drive and even erases
an R/W CD successfully, it does not write successfully unless the drive
appears on the SCSI layer. The process to do that I used with sucess was is
documented at:

http://pingu.salk.edu/LDP/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-2.html#ss2.1

The key was to fix the modules.conf file to load the ide-scsi and other
modules on boot (the instructions are in the document), though you need to
find the drive (the page assumes at /dev/hdb - mine was at /dev/hdc) and
adjust the entries (the line that says "options ide-cd ignore=hdb" needed to
read as "options ide-cd ignore=hdc" for me).

If (like me) you have probed the CDROM to try and write, the changes work
ONLY after a reboot.

Hope this helps someone.

Amit Joshi