CD-Recording Cookbook

Please note: This is not the CD-Writing-HOWTO from Winfried Trümper. This is just a collection of a few commonly used tasks.

Getting started

Setting $CDRDEV

First determine the right cd-recorder device:

$ cdrecord -scanbus

Set the environment variable $CDRDEV to the right value (i.e. 0,1,0):

Duplicating CDs

Mixed Data / Audio CDs

If you want to make a 1:1 copy of a CD with a special layout, laying in drive /dev/sr0 (first scsi CD drive), try this:

With some hardware cdrdao cannot figure out which driver to use. See the man-page for a list of possible drivers.
For me the following two options worked well:

If you get errors regarding possible buffer under runs, try a lower speed:

In some cases you have to specify this option as well:

CDRWs

Erasing