was dd anyone? Now cdrecord --scanbus

Austin Godber godber at uberhip.com
Wed Oct 5 10:51:14 MST 2005


Robert N. Eaton wrote:
> Dan Lund wrote:
> 
>> cdrecord --scanbus
>> cdrecord -dev=<device address from scanbus> -eject -v <iso>
>> It's what I use, never fails.
> Tried cdrecord --scanbus as user.  It gave me a long list of reasons why 
> it couldn't give me what I wanted. Then I tried it as root.


Try this:
sudo cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI:

if that shows something at 0,0,0 then you can use cdrecord like this:

sudo cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 rh4.iso


Austin


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