] 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. > > 1) Am I supposed to be root to use cdrecord and burn an .iso file? > > 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? 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 > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill