From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jim Nelson Subject: Re: CD-RW-Drive Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:26:50 -0500 Message-ID: <41D2866A.90307@verizon.net> References: <20041229070643.E79E71737F@heisspf> Reply-To: james4765@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20041229070643.E79E71737F@heisspf> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: "Peter H." Cc: linux 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? > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs