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This is useful to burn CDs using the command line

How to burn ISO images on CDs

First we need the ISO images, this can be done this way.

cat /dev/scd0 > your_file.iso

Off course you need here to instead of scd0 the right device where you have the info you want to put into an ISO file.

The other way is:

mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

then, get the ISO

mkisofs -r -o your_file.iso /mnt/cdrom

If your cdrom was already mounted, you will need first to umount it.

umount /mnt/cdrom

or

umount /media/cdrom

Now you need to see where you burn device is:

cdrecord -scanbus

If you get an error, try

cdrecord -scanbus dev=help

then:

cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA

or anything you need, in my case that gave me this output

# cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA

Cdrecord-Clone 2.01 (cpu-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 J?rg Schilling

Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support

Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.

Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla

Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.

scsidev: 'ATA'

devname: 'ATA'

scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2

Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27

Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.

cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').

scsibus1:

1,0,0 100)

1,1,0 101) 'COMBO ' 'IDE5216CO ' '0K52' Removable CD-ROM

1,2,0 102)

1,3,0 103)

1,4,0 104)

1,5,0 105)

1,6,0 106)

1,7,0 107) *

Now it is time to burn.

cdrecord -v -eject speed=16 dev=ATA:1,1,0 your_file.iso