Cary Mabe wrote:
>     Hi, pluggers!   I'm very very new at this, and I'm having a ball 
> getting my feet wet with linux.  I've already solved quite a few of my 
> own questions with a little research, but I'm not sure this is gonna 
> be an every day kinda question.  Here goes. . . .  I've been having no 
> luck at all burning an audio cd  (any kind of CD, really)  with the 
> linux system.  I don't think that it is any problem with any of the cd 
> writing tools I'm using (I've tried several)  I think the problem lies 
> with the fact that my drives  cd, hd, etc. are all showing up as scsi 
> drives when they are all on ide.  I'm new but I don't think that's 
> normal!!  if it's not, just as an exercise, I'd really like to try to 
> fix that without reinstalling.  Thanks to anybody who responds in advance!
>
>
> Cary
>
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Hi Cary,
Way back when the original cdrecord program was written for scsi only 
drives.  People with IDE drives wanted to be able to use it so they 
found a way to get it to work.  It has been quite a while since i've 
burned a CD/DVD in linux.  Which graphical front end are you using to 
make the experience easier?

There are a bunch of them for Gnome/KDE:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/CD_Writing/GNOME/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/CD_Writing/KDE/

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