how to write a Cd-rw?

[pichi]

hi everybody i have a hp 8200 series cd-writer, which is connected to my red hat 8.0 server through usb port.
How to can i use a cdrw to save information every week, what program can i use?? because i use the gnone (using the menu-> cdwriter) and i can´t write it, because everytime i get a new error. so what i am doing wrong??
thanks in advance

pichi

 

[Morsing]

It's probably a wrong device but you'll never know as long as you use a GUI.

Go to a prompt and use mkisofs to create the image and cdrecord to write to the CD.

Try 'mkisofs -h' and 'cdrecord -h'.

It's a bit complicated and you also need to know the device name of the drive.

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration

 

[grsgiri]

Try using XCDROAST. I find it is a good s/w in gui. But i have not used usb port. XCDROAST displays the device info also.

-- seshagiri

 

[pichi]

hi, i change my cdrw to cdr, because i read that cdrw didn´t work on linux, so i use now cdr, but although i´ve installed the xcdroast (which hangs ups) and i try using the mkisofs and cdrecord, i coudln´t create a multi session cdR, i wrote a cdr, the first time no problems, but i want to wrote more data on the cdr and then when i put it in my computer it doesn´t recognize the cd,, can you help me??
i use: mkisofs -J -o /tmp/data.iso /home/myuser
and then cdrecord -multi dev=0,0,0 speed=2 -data /tmp/data.iso

and the last question, how can i create a new floder on the cdr, with the cdrecord command??
thanks in advance, hope you can help me

Pichi