Difference between revisions of "CD Burner Testing"

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to test a burner

grab a drive
jumper it so that the drive is a master
plug the drive into the machine. Remember both the power and the ribbon cable.
boot the computer (the computer will automatically login you into a GUI)
Test the Drive With K3B.
- first simulate
- Second write some files to the disk, and make sure the program verifies
Make a Sticker for the drive. the sticker should say its a "CD/RW or DVD/RW" its speed "**X" and "OK"

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 ==to test a burner==
+* grab a drive
-NOTE: have fun
+* jumper it so that the drive is a master
+* plug the drive into the machine. Remember both the power and the ribbon cable.
-testing CD-RWs?
+* boot the computer (the computer will automatically login you into a GUI)
+* Test the Drive With K3B.
-*First off find a cdrw and a blank
+** first simulate
+** Second write some files to the disk, and make sure the program verifies
- !try the store for those items most of the time!
+* Make a Sticker for the drive. the sticker should say its a "CD/RW or DVD/RW" its speed "**X" and "OK"
-*Plug in the burner into the IDE cable.
-**The drive should be set to master
-      You can see what /var/log/dmesg has to say by reading the file
-      all though typing the command
-            dmesg | grep RW
-      might be faster.
-Login as guest. password is freegeek
-you should be at a command prompt now it probably looks like
-    guest@yoyo:~$
-that just means it's ready for you to tell it what to do.
-We will be using a few commands for this.
-  this howto asumes you know the basic linux file tree stucture
-  and a little about ISO bootable images.
-if you don't know about the command-line burning tool cdrecord
-you will soon. To keep things simple that tool is the one we will
-use. ;-)
-   type cdrecord -scanbus
-   then hit enter.
-    The output should look somthing like this
-        scsibus0:
-,0,0     0) 'IDE-CD  ' 'R/RW 4x4x24     ' '1.08' Removable CD-ROM
-,1,0     1) *
-,2,0     2) *
-,3,0     3) *
-,4,0     4) *
-,5,0     5) *
-,6,0     6) *
-,7,0     7) *
-what you are looking for is th "0,0,0" part
-if it bites back and tells you it can't find anything it's either
-not a burner or to old to work or just dead.
-*now man cdrecord... Just kidding you really don't have to, but should.
-      cdrecord dev=0,0,0 /some/place/where/the/iso/is.iso
-I will brake the prior line down for you. this is the usual syntax of cdrecord
-so if you just type cdrecord then enter it will complain about somthing.
-so you need to feed the command more commands or  i will use the word arguments
-'cuz that's what they are. So the dev=x,x,x (I used x here to let you know it's not
-always but in this case will be zero) is the device to use (x,x,x = scsibus,target,lun
-if you wanted to know). Now the /some/place/some/where.iso is the place in the file system
-where the ISO is located each ISO set is in its own directory for containment reasons.
-So if there are three ISOs in one directory (1.iso 2.iso 3.iso) you should burn all three
-of them. there are two main directories where the ISOs are located /iso-store and /ISOS from there
-you should just probe 'til you find something good (use the command ls or lean the magic of TAB,
-or ask the store for what they need. You also Get the blank CDs from the store.
-(DO NOT STEAL THEM YOU WILL BE HURT BADLY WITH GUILT!(and my poor grammer))
-==always have fun in anything you do==
-*you should also check the md5sums
-but thats a whole nother store.

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