] On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 13:49 +0200, 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.
Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file?
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?
Linux has brogressed a lot in this area since cdrecord first began. Recentl (for me) it looks like the SCSI bus scan is not reliable. But using the standard /dev/h[abcd] could. However, you should have a link called /dev/cdrom. Use that if it's there. Be aware that you can config this stuff in /etc/cdrecord.conf and not have to put it on the command line, after testing is completed.
Cheers,
Niki
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