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CDRW Burning On Debian

Just got Debian box burning today. I saw numerous articles over the net on how to burn. Most looks really complicated like you have to make some devices and stuff. Recently when I did a search again I came across an article on

First what you need to do is edit your modules aliases files by typing

nano /etc/modutils/aliases

add this line all the way to the end

alias scsi_hostadapter    ide-scsi

Next you will need to edit your /etc/lilo.conf file. Make sure you do a backup first. You should be able to see a line that says append="" but its commented. Uncomment it (or add the following line)

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

One thing to note is, in the above I have specified hdc. You would probably have to specify hdx where x is the drive the cdrom drive is on. You can find this out by doing

dmesg | grep ATAPI

. Once you've modified the lilo.conf, type lilo. This should churn out a bunch of added this and added that. If there is any error messages, you would have to figure out where it went wrong. Do not reboot until you've done so. If all else is ok, reboot. Next is to run the command

 cdrecord -scanbus 

This should display your cd/rw on one of the lines. If you have any problems, just go back to link above.

Posted by zoo at February 21, 2003 11:22 PM