From: Roshan d_rosh2001@yahoo.co.in To: Linux User group linuxers@mm.glug-bom.org Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:29:39 +0100 (BST) Subject: [ILUG-BOM] cdrecord 2.0 I don't know much about cdrecord, and its man pages specify only SCSI drives for writing to CD.

Is it so, that cdrecord is one of the command line options only for *SCSI* optical drives? (CD Writers)

I currently use K3b to write CD's, but wanted to try out cdrecord, and it seems as if there's no ATA support with it, is it?

pre kernel 2.6 CD writing ``requires" a SCSI device or SCSI emulation. This was mainly because ATAPI support was not present in the IDE driver. This has been corrected in kernel 2.6 onwards. You can very well use cdrecord, provided you have SCSI emulation enabled.

Consequently cdrw tools became the norm for CD writing.

Regards,

- vihan