Hello Geo.

08 May 03 08:42, you wrote to you:

 G> All CD/RW drives, SCSI or ATAPI or USB or Firewire, should e detected
 G> as CD-Roms with writing capabilities, as long as your controller is
 G> supported. You can write to a CD/RW using cdrecord, cdrdao or k3b
 G> (right-mousebutton-menu over the CD icon). There are no special
 G> "drivers" required, though you probably have to set the
writing method
 G> to "generic-mmc" in k3b. cdrecord -scanbus can tell you the virtual
 G> SCSI-ID under which your writer can be found.

 G> However, if you have a Knoppix-CD in your writer, you won't be able to
 G> copy CDs, unless you overwrite your KNoppix-CD (which will probably
 G> crash the system sooner or later). Also, some IDE controllers don't
 G> like it if you copy from one CD to the other on the same cable.

 G> After HD install, burning should work as usual. You have to make sure
 G> that your lilo.conf contains an entry like hdc=scsi if you have an
 G> ATAPI CD-Writer on that port. Again, cdrecord -scanbus will tell you
 G> the SCSI-ID of your writer. You don't need any special device files
 G> under /dev for burning, since cdrecord and cdrdao just look for the
 G> SCSI IDs on the command line (option dev=0,0,0 in cdrecord or --device
 G> 0,0,0 in cdrdao).

Thanks!

David

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