Tao of Mac

Apr 24th 2004 · 1 min read

cdrecord

cdrecord is the main command-line tool from cdrtools (packaged in cdrecord in distributions), providing CD and DVD writing services under most operating systems.

Notes:

Incantations required on my specific box to get an old Plextor PX-W8432T ATAPI burner working using libscg (I'm lazy and should have set up the module properly):

# insmod ide-scsi
# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) 'Memorex ' 'DVD-MAXX 1648 AJ' 'GWH2' Removable CD-ROM
        0,1,0     1) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R   PX-W8432T' '1.09' Removable CD-ROM
        0,2,0     2) *
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) *
        0,7,0     7) *

CD-RW blanking:

# cdrecord dev=0,1,0 blank=fast
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W8432T'
Revision       : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real BLANK mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.

Burn (now rolled into my autobackup script):

# cdrecord -dao dev=0,1,0 /tmp/snapshot.iso
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
scsidev: '0,1,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'PLEXTOR '
Identifikation : 'CD-R   PX-W8432T'
Revision       : '1.09'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in real SAO mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.

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