record single files in IDE CDRW

[Roberto Pereyra]

Hi

cdrecord works with ATAPI CD burner ?

thanks 

roberto





On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 11:49:46AM +1100, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:33:11PM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote:
> > Hi all !
> > How can I burn single files in a cdrom (RW-IDE) ?
> > Burncd allow burn iso files only ?
> > I want to burn files many times with the same cdrom (open session). 
> 
> I can't get burncd to work properly, but cdrecord will. Steps are
> (all as root):
> 
> - Install sysutils/cdrtools and sysutils/mkisofs
> - Get the device name:
> 	# cdrecord -scanbus
> - First time you want to burn something:
> 	# mkisofs a.txt | cdrecord dev=xxx -multi -
> - Next time you want to append:
> 	# cdrecord -msinfo
> 	(this will give a number like 0,19304 or something)
> 	# mkisofs -M xxx -C 0,19304 b.txt | cdrecord dev=xxx -multi -
> 
> If you use files with long names (more than 8.3), try the "-J -R"
> flags to mkisofs
> 
> Seems like a lot of work... You could try k3b (with kde)
> or bashburn http://bashburn.sf.net/ for console use
> 
> hth
> Gautam
>