Re: cdrecord newbie mystified at step zero

On Aug 13, 2:31 am, Matt Giwer <jul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You don't mount blank media. cdrecord sends data to the drive telling it to
burn a file system on it.

Ah! Based on this remark, also as made
by Scott Hemphill in his followup,
I realized that, okay, you just start
writing to a blank CD. Same goes for
getting the track numbers from a partially
filled CD -- you just execute cdrecord
with -msinfo. (But first, I had to get my
device designation, ATA:1,1,0, correct.)

What had confused me was the structure
of the tutorial I cited, which states,
ahead of where it gets down to the business
of recording, that "Data CD's must be
mounted before one may access them."
In the context, such a "Note" apparently
is gratuitous and irrelevant.

So, just now, I was able to write a test
directory to a blank CD after making it
into a .iso. As you say, though, it
"disappears" the directory and writes
the contents file by file. It would be
nice to retain directories -- the way I
can with Nero under Windows XP --
but maybe that's asking too much of
a Linux command-line utility. For the
time being, though, it will work as a
backup for digital images, which is
my immediate need.

--
Charles Packer
http://cpacker.org/whatnews
mailboxATcpacker.org

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