was dd anyone? Now cdrecord --scanbus

Bill Jonas bill at billjonas.com
Wed Oct 5 09:53:08 MST 2005


On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:42:54AM -0700, Kevin Brown wrote:
> It isn't in that list.  Under 2.4 you needed to use the ide-scsi module 
> so that cdrecord could use an IDE burner as if it was a SCSI device. 
> Not sure if that is fully needed under 2.6, but judging from the output 
> it probably still is.

Nope, it's not.  cdrecord itself claims that it doesn't work -- at least
not reliably -- but I haven't had any trouble at all.

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