Re: [Sheflug] Re: Re: My First Post

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Chris J/#6 wrote:

> IDE or SCSI? IDE needs SCSI emulation switched on, I belive, for it to work
> right. It's also a little trickier to write CD's as there are few all-in-one
> front-ends. The standard method is (for data CD's):
>         1. Use mkisofs to create the CD ISO image
>         2. Use cdrecord to burn the ISO image to CD.
> Front-ends (like xcdroast) apparently make this easier, but again I've but
> used any, preferring to stick to the command line.

 Yep, you need to compile in SCSI CD support, SCSI emulation, and
possibly generic SCSI support too.
 I tried XCDRoast last night. Couldn't be bothered trying to figure out
how to use it to write a data CD.
 cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -speed=8 -data imagefile doesn't take much to
remember :-)

 Baz.

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