Getting my CD burner working

[William Park]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:28:37PM -0400, Tom Watts wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a CD burner that has worked under Linux before, from Red Hat 9 up 
> to Fedora Core 2, but has been unable to write to CDs since then. 
> Reading is no problem and I can write CDs under Windows, although it 
> almost always messes up writing iso images (I know this because of 
> Fedora's media check).  I'm not really sure where to start, but here is 
> the output of su -c 'cdrecord -scanbus':
> 
> Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a03-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 
> 1995-2005 Jörg Schilling
> [...]
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
> scsibus1:
> 	1,0,0	100) 'CyberDrv' 'CW088D CD-R/RW  ' '15HF' Removable CD-ROM
> 	1,1,0	101) 'DVD ROM ' 'CI-BDV316E      ' '0052' Removable CD-ROM
> 	1,2,0	102) *
> [...]
> 
> Using cdrecord, even as root, always fails.  I've recently been thinking 
> about upgrading to a DVD burner in hoping that it'll solve the problem 
> in the process, but want to see if this one is broken or just improperly 
> configured before going down the upgrade path.  If more info is needed, 
> please let me know.  TIA for any help.

>From top of my head,

    cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc driveropts=burnfree file.iso

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