ATA? Please . . .

[Carroll Grigsby]

Ted Parks wrote:
> I posted a query earlier about specifying dev=ATA when burning an audio CD. I got no replies but would be grateful for any help.
> 
> When I try to burn a CD using cdrdao on my Dell running Breezy 
> Badger, the burn fails. I have read that ATA works better with 
> cdrdao. On my laptop running Debian stable, I specified my CDRW drive 
> using dev=ATA along with the drive's location, and cdrdao worked.
> 
> I cannot get Ubuntu to find the Dell's DVD-RW drive with cdrecord 
> -scanbus dev=ATA, though cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI does show the 
> drive.
> 
> How can I use ATA with Ubuntu? What is the difference between ATA and ATAPI?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ted Parks
> 

Ted:
My good friend google led me here:
http://www.ata-atapi.com/
ATA refers to hard disk drives, whereas ATAPI for CD, DVD and tape 
drives. Have you tried using the dev=ATAPI option?
-- cmg