
Saving Files on Optical Media
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Accessing Your CD-R Drive
Linux supports recording on IDE ATAPI CD-R drives through a special driver called
ide-scsi. Most Linux distributions also include this driver in the kernel. If your sys-
tem does not have the driver, you will need to load the driver module (installing it if
needed), or possibly recompile your kernel.
The ide-scsi driver emulates a SCSI device for software that is designed just for SCSI
devices. Your IDE ATAPI CD drive and DVD drive will appear as if they are SCSI
devices when the ide-scsi driver is active.
The following command will list the SCSI devices on your system, so you can locate
the emulated SCSI device number for your CD-R drive. It may list other devices as
well, including any real SCSI devices if your computer actually has them. Run the
command as root:
# cdrecord -scanbus
The output might look similar to this:
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX195E1 ' 'ZYS5' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) 'DVD-16X ' 'DVD-ROM BDV316E ' '0052' Removable CD-ROM
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
Look for the device description that matches your CD-R recorder. If you have more
than one device,