CD Burners in Linux

[SpaceC0wb0y]

I want to get a new CD Burner for my Linux rig. I am running Redhat 7.1 and was wondering what the compatibility was with cdrw's and linux. I was thinking about a TDK velocd. Anyone have one of these running with linux? Anyone have any suggestions?

 

[DeeK]

If it doesn't require special drivers for Windows, then it should work fine in Linux. The trick is that it must be setup as a SCSI device through IDE-SCSI emulation.

Your kernel should already have the right modules installed; it's just a matter of activating them. First, you need to edit the bootloader's config file and give it the parameter &quot;<CD-R device>=ide-scsi&quot; where <CD-R device> is the device file for your burner (i.e. /dev/hdc for secondary master). Apply the changes, then in your modules.conf file, add:

options ide-cd ignore=<CD-R device> # tell the ide-cd module to ignore <CD-R device>
alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before ide-scsi

Then reboot.

Now your burner should be set to /dev/scd0. If you don't have the burner programs installed, do that now - you'll need cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav, and cdrdao at the least. These are the command-line tools for which there are many frontends. XCDroast seems to be the most popular. All of these programs should be on your Red Hat CDs.

Yes, it's a more annoying procedure than in Windows, but once it's working, the benefits are nice - I can easily burn a CD while playing Unreal Tournament without worry of a buffer underrun on my highly aged main rig (see sig). We don't need no steenking BurnProof!

 

[MGMorden]

I had my main rig with a burner working great in Linux. I took Linux off of this machine though b/c I built a second dedicated machine to run Linux on (couldn't afford a burner for that one yet ). They work fine though once you set it up using ide-scsi emulation (which DeeK has explained how to do so I won't say the same stuff over again). As far as a burning front-end I highly recommend X-CDRoast. It works well, has a professional looking interface and is pretty reliable. All of them (except maybe Fireburner for Linux) use the same program, cdrecord, to do the actual burning though.

Good luck.