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CD/ DVD Writing

-->I started by trying it out on my Fedora 10, but moved on to ubuntu 9.04 after it showed the message "SCSI driver not found" and "cdrecord --scanbus " would not detect the CDROM RW device.
-->Then i kept searching for module "ide_cd" in the output of "lsmod". and "insmod ide_cd" said no file named ide_cd exists.But none of these is required.

--> In ubuntu cdrecord --scanbus showed my device as 3,0,0 and when i inserted a CD or DVD the output of cdrecord disappeared.

The guiding light came from these 2 resources:-


1. /usr/share/doc/README.wodim.ATAPI.setup (in ubuntu)



As mentioned in link 2, i detected /dev/dvrw2 and /dev/cdrw2 both linked to sr0.

Now issued the command

cdrecord speed =2 dev=/dev/cdrw2 path_to_iso

the command failed showing device or resource busy.

I issued "umount /dev/cdrw2"

then again "cdrecord speed =2 dev=/dev/cdrw2 path_to_iso" worked.

--> Now tried "cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw -eject path_to_iso" in fedora and it worked pretty well to create a imation DVD.
So basically "cdrecord --scanbus" is not required.

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