A while back I looked for drivers for a HP writer and found the same 
response...no Linux drivers, and if I wanted the windows drivers I would 
have to let their "Master CD" reformat my harddrive.  But, in Linux you 
can recompile the kernel to support ide-scsi emulation, then add a line 
in your kernel startup parameters that "ide-scsi=hdc", where the writer 
is master on secondary ide.  Then it works fine.  It is in the how-to's 
on linuxdocs.org.   Good luck,  Roderick

Craig S. wrote:

>I guess that the model would have helped a little on that question. It
>is a cd24ri. HP says there is no linux support of course that means that
>hp just has a bunch of drones on their support line giving no brainer
>responses to questions (what does a company expect though when they pay
>support people 10 bucks a hour). I have done some poking around and it
>appears that there are some programs which will create a iso9660 image.
>The question is how to dump that image to the hp drive's controller (ok
>I know that is what the driver is supposed to do). Since linux treats
>everything as a file I was thinking that maybe the image can just be
>dumped to the drive, at that point shouldn't the controller see that the
>incoming data is a iso image and write start writing data to a cd? Or am
>I oversimplifying the process?
>
>Craig S.
>
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