ATA, ATAPI, CD burning

[Ted Parks]

When I try to burn an audio CD using cdrdao on my Dell running Breezy Badger, the burn fails. I have read that ATA works better with cdrdao. On my laptop running Debian stable, I specified my CDRW drive using dev=ATA along with the drive's location, and cdrdao worked.

I cannot get Ubuntu to find the Dell's DVD-RW drive with cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATA, though cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI does show the drive.

How can I use ATA with Ubuntu? What is the difference between ATA and ATAPI?

Thanks,
Ted Parks