cdrecord: Please report.

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Bernt Hansson wrote:

> 2013-02-21 15:47, Warren Block skrev:
>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013, Bernt Hansson wrote:
>>> 2013-02-21 00:52, Ronald F. Guilmette skrev:
>>>> 
>>>> And more to the point, how can I burn a simple damn CD now?
>>>> 
>>> Try http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ its in ports as
>>> sysutils/dvd+rw-tools
>> 
>> But growisofs from dvd+rw-tools only writes DVDs.  cdrecord from
>> cdrtools-3.00_2 worked for me yesterday, burning a CD on an external USB
>> drive.
>
> growisofs writes cd's, no matter what they are called.

Not for me.  With a CD-R:

:-( /dev/cd0: media is not recognized as recordable DVD: 9

The other difference is that growisofs is based on mkisofs, and takes a 
list of files to write.  I don't know if it has a way of writing an ISO 
image directly.