[wplug] New box

[David G Matthews]

The cdrecord software used to burn cd's under Linux doesn't directly
address IDE drives.  You have to fool it into thinking it's talking to a
scsi drive.  When you configure your burner (and this will depend a lot on
which distro you go with), you'll need to configure scsi support (even
though you don't have any scsi devices) and scsi emulation.  Zach Paine
had suggestions for this a post back or so.  It sounds kind of flaky but
it works.  Be careful, however.  I did this incorrectly the first time and
couldn't use the drive at all until someone came and sorted it out for me.
Read the CD-Burning mini-howto.
-dgm
 

On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, H. Lee Brinton wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:M:50AM -0400, harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu wrote:
> >> Plextor 16/10/40 cdrw
> >scsi or ide? either should be fine though scsi is better for cdrw's in my
> >opinion. plextor drives are good nevertheless.
> 
> It is ide. I went with ide because I am boycotting scsi; prices too high for
> such a small difference.
> 
> >> Windows 2000 CD
> >put it in the microwave.
> I currently do a lot of Java development and win32 is the only real Java2
> development platform.  Even worse is that during the maybe 6 months that I
> have run Win 2000 at work, I have not found any thing to complain about it.
> 
> - 
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