May 5, 2006
cdrecord/cdrdao on a USB CD-RW/DVD-RW on Debian
So…you got a new external USB CD-RW / DVD-RW and you don’t know how to run it on Debian GNU/Linux? no problemo amigo!
thing is, the Linux kernel emulates all USB devices as SCSI devices so you really have to know what kernel drivers you choose while compiling your kernel. Normaly to run a USB CD-RW/DVD-RW you need the following drivers to be compiled with the kernel:
- SCSI emulation support
- IDE/ATAPI CDROM support
- SCSI disk support
- SCSI CDROM support
- SCSI generic support
- USB device filesystem
- EHCI HCD (USB2.0) support
- USB Mass Storage support
of course, its your choice to compile log support for SCSI or USB, after compiling and modprobing the modules chosen (you can do that using modconf), get the following packages from apt:
apt-get install cdrdao cdrecord usbmount usbutils dvd+rw-tools
Of course, if you download k3b (KDE’s CD/DVD burner) for example, it will automaticaly download some other necessary packages.
that’s it, you should now be able to burn on your new external USB CD-RW/DVD-RW
Filed by haytham at 5:12 pm under Linux HOWTOs / Tutorials