Govind Chandra schreef: > Just installed Gentoo 2005.0. > > cdrecord -scanbus says there are issues with kernel 2.5 and newer. > > Is there any way of writing CDs in Gentoo 2005.0? > > Govind > >
Of course there is... don't you think you'd have heard about it if none of us could write CD's and DVDs? I mean, that would be *news* ;-) . That message is... well, not untrue, but misleading. We've been beyond the 2.5 stage long enough that while the "issues" are not "fixed" (due to the developer of cdrecord being in philosophical conflict with the kernel devs), they have long ago had workarounds developed for them. So CD recording works fairly normally under Linux-- certainly under X, where there are several frontends available that record such media reliably. Under the console, a read-through of the man pages is in order due to 1) specific settings needed to run cdrecord using an ATAPI recorder rather than a SCSI one; 2) additional programs needed to record DVDs (rather than CDs) or special formats (like ISOs). But it's all pretty straightforward, and works well (I haven't burned a coaster in months). What precisely is the problem you're having? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
