Re: CD-RW-Drive

Jim Nelson
2004-12-29T10:26:50Z

Peter H. wrote:
> Season Greetings,
>
> Slackware 10, Kernel 2.4.26
>
> I got myself an Asus Atapi CD-RW-Drive and I am not sure if this was the right
> choice for Linux. I was able to make it work following the instruction of the
> program xcdroast, however, some things seem strange.
>
> I always get error messages telling not to use atapi instead scsi.
>
> I had a CD with picture files on. When I copied them to the HD I can't open
> them and copying back to the CD I can't open them as well any longer. In fact
> I can not mount the CD anymore. Only xcdroast can.
> $ mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: Not a directory
>

I've had similar problems with Slackware - it doesn't always set the /dev/cdrom
symlink properly, and *really* has problems with external (SCSI, USB) CDROM
drives. you might want to try the full mount command (as root):

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

> Trying too boot Knoppix 3.4 from the CD I get only a blank screen. Booting
> from CD and then switching to HD, Knoppix works alright.
>
> It seems that xcdroast can only write .wav and .iso files?????
>

Somewhat. k3b is better at creating iso files, and lets you drag and drop the
file system on the CD, but sometimes (for more advanced efforts - creating
bootable CD's, Mac-format CD's, etc) you still need to use the mkisofs | cdrecord
command line combo.

> Questions:
>
> Is there a better CD-RW-Drive for Linux than Asus? The shop is willing to
> exxchange.
>
> Are there better programs than xcdroast to R+W and which?