Atapi CD Burning example with cdrecord

[TripleD]

I thought i would post this for future reference for anyone looking too do cd burning with a regular Atapi device without jumping through the ide-scsi hoop's

Also, although i did find in the list's here that cdrecord now supports burning to Atapi burner's, i did not find any example's for doing such a thing, so after some messing about i seem to have come across the magic way of doing it....

Wow, burncd like burning in Linux... finally!

First find your burner device:

bash-2.05b# cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus

Cdrecord 2.01a05 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
scsidev: 'ATAPI'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha.
Warning: There may be fatal problems.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) 'SONY ' 'DVD-ROM DDU1621 ' 'S1.6' 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) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'MITSUMI ' 'CR-4802TE ' '2.1D' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

In this example, my cd burner would be scsibus1:
1,0,0

In this example i will be burning an iso image, (i have not tried, but i'm sure the other example's in the man would work the same.)

bash-2.05b# cdrecord -v speed=4 ( or what ever speed you choose) dev=ATAPI:1,0,0 -data anyfile.iso
the key here is to specify the dev "type" being "ATAPI:bus, or ATAPI:1,0,0" instead of the regular bus listing for scsi which would have been just 1,0,0 for the dev listing.

Hopefully after this you should see a spew of info and the timer to begin, hit enter and you should be on your way to ATAPI burning on Linux!

Please feel free to make any correction's that are necessary in the above.

Cheers

David

[Donut]

Many thanks - this worked a treat exactly as you documented.

I didn't realise it would be so easy after struggling unsuccessfully with scsi-emulation.

FYI, once I got it working from the command line with cdrecord I tried CD Bake Oven using the workaround I found here...

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46311&highlight=cdbakeoven+atapi

...and that worked great for ATAPI too.

Cheers

Paul

[Ribs]

Thanks for the tip, this worked perfectly.

I needed to burn some ISO images. I tried all the GUI applications out there, but they all thought I wanted to the burn the .iso as a file, not creat a CD from it. The command you gave was exactly what I wanted.

Long live the command line!

-Ribs

[richone]

Xcdroast 0.98alpha14 supports ATAPI writes, make sure you select the ATAPI:0,0,0 device in the cd settings tab when setting up Xcdroast. I was able to coax it up to 32x on a 48x burner, not to shabby. Thanks for the tip as my ide-scsi adventure was about to begin

[FxChiP]

I advise caution - one of the interfaces for ATAPI is ***EXPERIMENTAL***

My CD burner no longer works a week or two after burning a CD (that didn't even go well!)

[richone]

Caution noted. I have burned (or is it burnt) 10 cds without incident...

[noisefactor]

[latexer]

also, if you're using 2.5.x/2.6.0-test1, you can now burn by directly specifying the device. It will spit out some errors about in improper format, but will work none the less, i.e.

[FxChiP]

In retrospect, I talked to someone who's into computer repair, and he says the same thing happened to his because of a busted fuse, which happens because of age or hitting it too hard. I never hit it, so it's time probably came. The caution could be discarded... but I'd still like to know that in advance...

[pilla]

See also XCDroast with ATAPI driver

Moving to Documentation, Tips & Tricks as it is not a support question.
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