[Sderby] could do with help setting up my CD-RW

[James Gibbon]

My Freeserve wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madam,
> 
> I have been trying to set-up my Mitsumi CR 4804 TE IDE CD-Writer via 
> Mandrake 9.0, so far I have go to the stage were I am having to rely on 
> Bindozs 98 & a copy of Burn4Free to create any CD's I need.
> 
> Please bare in mind I have tried to use X-CD-Roast, I have also read the 
> slightly confusing help page (in the HowTo's) but I still can not figure 
> it out. Please Help as I can not stand Bindozes at the best of times, 
> and I would much prefer to burn CD's via Linux and through Bindozes in 
> the bin. Thank you.
> 

Can you tell us exactly what you want to do?  Burn audio CDs, or 
data?  Is the CD writer working OK as a CDROM under Mandy?

What happens when you type 

cdrecord --scanbus

.. ?