[mythtv-users] Re:Any suggestions for DVD+R linux tools?

K.R. Foley kr at cybsft.com
Tue Jan 6 15:22:40 EST 2004


Darrick Hartman wrote:
> --- Romel Llarena <rdllarena at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Research, on LILO there is an append ide-scsi
>>reference. Then I found a GRUB reference. Found a
>>hdd=ide-scsi but I have two drives (DVD+R is hdd and
>>regular DVD is hdc) so I added before the previous
>>line, "hdc=ide-scsi" as well so I could do a direct
>>DVD to DVD+R copy. Then rebooted. I think that
>>killed
>>boot as I can no longer connect remotely. :-O
> 
> 
> Appending that line is only necessary for cd/dvd
> writers as the cdrecord utility uses the scsi bus to
> talk to the drive.  If you have a dvdROM or cdROM (not
> recorders) then you do not need to append that line. 
> (in other words if hdd is your cdburner, only append
> hdd=isd-scsi and not hdc.
> 
> Darrick
> 

Darrick,

The exception to this may be if you want to do cd to cd copying. IIRC, 
you must have the cd setup as scsi also to do this.

kr


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