CD Burner Testing

to test a burner

NOTE: have fun

testing CD-RWs?

• First off find a cdrw and a blank

try the store for those items most of the time

• Plug in the burner into the IDE cable.
• Login as guest. password is freegeek
• You should make sure the device is there
• the software you will be using well help a lot

  run cdrecord -sacanbus
  then hit enter.
  the output should look something like

guest@yoyo:~$ cdrecord -scanbus

       scsibus0:
       0,0,0     0) 'IDE-CD  ' 'R/RW 4x4x24     ' '1.08' Removable CD-ROM
       0,1,0     1) *
       0,2,0     2) *
       0,3,0     3) *
       0,4,0     4) *
       0,5,0     5) *
       0,6,0     6) *
       0,7,0     7) *

what you are looking for is th "0,0,0" part

• • • • You got it good

• now man cdrecord... Just kidding you really don't have to, but should.

• type

     cdrecord dev=0,0,0 /some/place/where/the/iso/is.iso
                                /|\                               
                                 |
    this part is like " /iso-store/slackware/slackware-10.0-install-d1.iso " or something

• Then hit enter

• you should also check the md5sums

but thats a whole nother store.