[ale] cdrecording problems

[Geoffrey]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Jim Lynch wrote:
>>
>>> What version of Linux and what distro?  There are some strange things 
>>> going on with kernel 2.6.x.  I had to actually put the device name in 
>>> the -dev option.
>>
>>
>>
>> Running 2.6.8 here and k3b fires up cdrecord as follows:
>>
>> cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd ....
>>
>> Also, the dev and speed options don't have a leading '-'  I don't know 
>> if that makes a difference as I've not tried it, but I know the 
>> following works:
>>
>> cdrecord dev=/dev/hdd speed=12
>>
>> And the man page reflects these are the proper options for cdrecord.
>>
> I have had cd/dvd burning issues with kernel 2.6.8, had to drop back to 
> 2.6.7.  Can you burn as root?  Yeah I know, dangerous, but...

sudo, that's what I do.

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Until later, Geoffrey