[CentOS] Using cdrecord on CentOS
Michael A. Peters
mpeters at mac.com
Sun Apr 12 19:39:06 UTC 2009
Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to use cdrecord on the command line. I'm currently reading the
> relevant chapter in Carla Schroder's "Linux Cookbook". Unfortunately,
> some of the tricks and hints included in the book don't seem to work the
> same way on a standard CentOS 5 install.
>
> 1) Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file?
I've found it works much better if you are root.
>
> 2) How do I specify a device? 'cdrecord -scanbus' doesn't seem to work.
> Say my CD burner is /dev/hdc, would 'cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc' be the
> correct way to address it?
cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdc -speed=24 -dao -pad file.iso
(of course your options may vary)
Note for SATA burners, /dev/scd0
is probably what you want. For PATA/ATAPI (what it sounds like you have)
then /dev/hdc probably is best - I haven't burned an old ATA burner in a
long time.
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