[Sussex] CD-R in Ubuntu

[Gavin Stevens]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:10:30 +0100
Geoffrey Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 00:47 +0100, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> > Is this right for the CD? I keep having a thought that there was
> > another file that I edited when I had Debian, when SCSI emulation
> > was needed, but I can't remember what it was.
> 
> You shouldn't need SCSI emulation at all.  

SCSI emulation was a holy grail that I never quite attained in Debian. I
was glad, therefore, that the 2.6 kernel did away with it.

It is quite confusing that Xcdroast still seems to be expecting SCSI
emulation.
> 
> When you're using cdrecord set:
> 
> dev=/dev/hdx
> 
> ..where hdx is the device name for your IDE cd writer (mines /dev/hdd
> for example).  Linus dropped the SCSI emulation code a while back
> (promting a protracted series of strops from Joerg Schilling).

Thanks, another piece in the jigsaw.

Gavin.