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Re: cd burning
Thanks for the details. I was just wondering if they had changed
something to support atapi. As I don't have a burner (yet) I haven't
bothered to dig too deeply into this aspect of linux althought I've read
posts indicating that windows also uses scsi emulation when burning.
Rod
Ben Hall wrote:
>
> Support for ATAPI burning under Linux is done _through_ the SCSI
> emulation. FYI, this is not the case in FreeBSD, which can burn using
> ATAPI natively (but you can't use cdrecord in it unless you have an actual
> SCSI drive..)
>
> In fact, many Windows burners basically do the SCSI emulation too (Nero
> and EasyCD, for sure.. That's what ASPI is.)
>
> As for Linux GUI burner apps, all tend to sit on top of cdrecord or
> cdrdao. I presonally like Gnometoaster, but KreateCD is another good one.
>
> Burning under Linux is quite good, and the SCSI emulation has had no
> adverse effects on my machine for the past four years.
>
> Ben
>
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 01:26:52 -0400
> "rod" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I don't have a burner but out of curiosity I just checked out xcdroast
> > (sources.list file set to woody tree). The descriptions for both
> > xcdroast (version 0.98+0alpha9-8) and cdrecord (version 4:1.10-23)
> > indicated support for scsi AND atapi (as well as parallel) devices. Does
> > this mean these versions do not require scsi emulation support?
> >
> > Rod
> >
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