[GLLUG] CD-RW/CD-R for Linux

[N N Ashok]

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On Sunday 27 April 2003 16:44, Ben Pfaff scrawled:
> "Seth Bembeneck" <sbembeneck@characterlink.net> writes:
> > I’m looking to get a cd-rw for Red Hat. The two manufacturers I’m
> > looking at right now are Lite-on and Cendyne. When I look at the boxes
> > for them, Linux is not listed. Does any one know if they will work?
> > Should most of the newer cd-rw drives work? Does Red hat even support
> > cd burning?
>
> I haven't yet run into a CD-RW I couldn't make work under Linux.
> These days, most will work fine right out of the box.  That said,
> some won't, and some may take more work than others.
>
> Take a look at this page, which lists drives that will work:
>        
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private
>/man/README/README-2.0 In particular, it says this:
>         It seems that all drives that have been initially
>         released in 1999 or later are MMC compliant. If a recent
>         drive does not work with cdrecord, you most likely found
>         a firmware bug in this drive.  Contact your drive vendor
>         in this case.
>
> Red Hat should support CD burning.  You want the cdrecord program
> and perhaps some kind of friendly GUI wrapper, like grip (for
> music CDs) or xcdroast (for anything).

I have been using cd burning on my RH7.3 for a long time now. I have a LG 
cd-rw drive. The tools that I use are mkisofs to create an ISO image of the 
directories/files i want to burn and then cdrecord to burn the image. If you 
want I could post some simple command examples. Take a look at the CD-writing 
howto also (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html). it gives 
detailed instructions to burn cds using Linux

Ashok
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