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Currently the CD-ROM drive is being correctly detected as an ATA device. However to write to the CD we need to pretend that it is a SCSI device. The help files for XCDRoast describe how to do this but I shall explain the steps that I took. Note that this information is definitely specific to a Debian system. Do not follow these steps if you have a different distribution.
The first thing that should be changed are the boot options inside the GRUB
file. Mine looks like this after the changes:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 hdc=ide-scsi
The next step is to alter the modules. There are two stages to this. In the first
stage, I created a file (cdwriting) in the /etc/modutils
directory.
This file had the following contents:
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
You should then run the
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
update-modules
script to make the changes
to the configuration files.
The next stage was to add ide-scsi
to the entries in
/etc/modules
.
We need to make a few changes to the permissions to allow a normal user to burn
CDs. It should be
noted that some of the necessary changes have already been done by the Debian
maintainers. You must issue the following commands:
chgrp sys /dev/sg*
chmod 600 /dev/sg*
chown root.cdrom /usr/bin/mkisofs
XCDRoast must be run as root to create a default configuration file. Make sure you do this before using XCDRoast as a normal user.