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Can anyone help out with burning a CD with Linux? I searched the forum earlier and found a reference to cdrecord. I've gotten that installed, but when I run cdrecord -scanbus it doesn't find my ATAPI CD-ROM (an HP 9100), and I tried the README's but frankly they're over my head.
Does anyone have any advice, or a better solution?
Okay . . . from what I've read, my Linux box's kernel is 2.4.8, so support is built into the kernel -- BUT, I still have to configure the boot loader so it looks at my burner as a SCSI device. I'm reading up on that now, but that does make sense?
just add this to /etc/lilo.conf where the entry for your kernel image is:
append="hdX=ide-scsi"
except replace X with the letter of your cd writer
if you need more info go to linuxdoc.org and look under how-tos for the cd-writer how to
Um...just in case you didn't already know, even if SCSI emulation is supported by the kernel, that doesn't mean that it's enabled. Try what sparkster said, but if it doesn't work, you're going to have to recompile your kernel.
