[ale] CDRW on Linux

[James P. Kinney III]

fdisk is a tool for hard drives. As you have discovered, it won't work
for CDRW!

cdrecord and cdtools are what you are looking for.

There is a kernel level filesystem that supports UDF formatted CD's. It
is considered "EXPERIMENTAL" to use the write ability with it. I have
been unable to get the read to work.

The best bet is to use cdrecord/mkisofs and some scripting. Be
forwarned, blanking a CDRW can take a long time! Fast blanks are not
always reliable.

If you want a GUI interface to the process, xcdroast and gcombust are 2
I have used. Gcombust requires gnome libs.  

On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 08:49, Robert Heaven wrote:
> I have a Yamaha CDRW that I've never really tried to use with Linux and
> was wondering if there are any tools for it. I would like to use it as a
> backup medium.
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> I've already tried fdisk but it won't talk to it. (/dev/scd0)
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