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| Newer page: | version 43 | Last edited on Friday, February 16, 2007 11:10:25 am | by BenStaz | Revert |
| Older page: | version 42 | Last edited on Monday, May 15, 2006 4:45:26 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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* [K3B | http://k3b.sourceforge.net] is the [KDE] project's [GUI] burning tool
* <tt>xcdroast</tt> has a fairly awful [GTK] based [GUI].
* <tt>eroaster</tt> looks much better designed for ease-of-use... written in [Python] and [GTK].
* [GNOME] has <tt>nautilus-cd-burner</tt>, a [GNOME] [VFS] thing that means you can drag'n'drop files into the <tt>burn:///</tt> virtual directory, and then click the <i>Write to CD</i> button. Nice and easy. In a nautilus window, click on the <i>Go</i> or <i>Places</i> menu and then <i>CD Creator</i>.
+
+!!! Identify Drive Model
+
+Here are a few ways of finding out your drive information.
+
+*cdrecord -inq
+
+<verbatim>
+Device type : Removable CD-ROM
+Version : 0
+Response Format: 1
+Vendor_info : 'BENQ '
+Identifikation : 'DVD DD DW1650 '
+Revision : 'BCDC'
+Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW.
+</verbatim>
+
+*cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA
+
+<verbatim>
+scsibus1:
+ 1,0,0 100) 'BENQ ' 'DVD DD DW1650 ' 'BCDC' Removable CD-ROM
+</verbatim>
+
+*dmesg | egrep '(DVD|CD)'
+
+<verbatim>
+[ 30.164585] hdc: BENQ DVD DD DW1650, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
+[ 30.566013] hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
+[ 30.566021] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
+</verbatim>
!!! cdrecord(1)
At least in [Debian] [Woody], the file <tt>/etc/default/cdrecord</tt> stores settings about your CD writer(s). The last section which maps the device settings to the drive name __''must'' be Tab separated__. Spaces won't work.
