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To probe a drive

cdrecord -scanbus dev=/dev/hdc

To burn without messing with the ISO file system

                 dd if=/dev/zero of="empty_file" bs=1024k count=4489
                 mke2fs  empty_file
                 empty_file is not a block special device.
                 Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
                 mount -t ext2 -o loop=/dev/loop1 empty_file /mnt/tmp
                 (copy files there)
                 umount /mnt/tmp
                 burn like an iso!

Command to do the burn of an ISO

growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/hdc=/share/junk/FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso

Burning files to a CDRom

* mkisofs -o blah.iso -rJTV volume_name some_dir (where some_dir is the root directory containing the files you want, volume_name is the volume name of the disk) * sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -v blah.iso

to Rip a CD/DVD^M

see also the cdrecord docs on cloning

readcd dev=/dev/hdc -f=track.img

How to burn files to a DVD

growisofs -Z /dev/hdc -R -J file_1 file_2 file_3 ...
(repeat for multiple sessions?)
growisofs -M /dev/hdc=/dev/zero (to close out the session)

What growisofs really does

builtin_dd if=/share/junk/FC-5-x86_64-DVD.iso of=/dev/hdc obs=32k seek=0

How to burn a CD-Rom

sudo cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -v blah.iso

-- MattWalsh - 08 Sep 2007