ATA? Please . . .

[Sasha Tsykin]

Ted Parks wrote:
> When I try to burn a 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Ted Parks
>   
I don't know how you can use dev=ATA but see if dev=ATAPI works. If it 
doesn't, then no problem.