ATA? Please . . .

[Ted Parks]

Sasha,

Thanks for the reply about ATA. dev=ATAPI does work, but cdrdao prefers dev=ATA, at least on my Debian machine. Using dev=ATAPI will not complete the audio CD burning process.

Best,
Ted

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sasha Tsykin" <psychosushi at optusnet.com.au>
> To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: ATA? Please . . .
> Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:34:13 +1100
> 
> 
> Ted Parks wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ted Parks
> >
> I don't know how you can use dev=ATA but see if dev=ATAPI works. If 
> it doesn't, then no problem.
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