Re: CD writing under Linux

[Ghins Mathai <ghins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi  everybody,

I am glad to say tha I have been able to use the HP 7200e CD writer on Linux.
Want to know the details ? Read on

I use Linux 2.2.5

did the following :

insmod paride
insmod epat
insmod pg drive0=0x378,0,0,2,1,0

Next, create an image of the directory to be written using 'mkisofs'

mkisofs -J  -o cd_image  <Source directory>

now use
cdrecord -scanbus
to get the scsibus number ( It seems that the parallel port is mapped on to a
virtual SCSI bus)

next use
cdrecord -dev=0,0 -inq
to get the target and lun numbers

Now I used
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -data cd_image


I found these documents to be of immense use

http://gear.torque.net/parport/paride.html

The current version of the CD-writing-HOWTO



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Hope someone finds this useful

Regards Ghins



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