Using cdrecord
Published on Sep 05, 2016 by Sachin.

Logging commands for using cdrecord. Might be useful.

• Identifying an Optical device

  cdrecord -scanbus
  

  Sample output:

   1: Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a16 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2013 Joerg Schilling
   2: Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34
   3: Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'.
   4: scsibus3:
   5:         3,0,0   300) 'ATA     ' 'Hitachi HDS72161' 'P22O' Disk
   6:         3,1,0   301) *
   7:         3,2,0   302) *
   8:         3,3,0   303) *
   9:         3,4,0   304) *
  10:         3,5,0   305) *
  11:         3,6,0   306) *
  12:         3,7,0   307) *
  13: scsibus4:
  14:         4,0,0   400) 'HL-DT-ST' 'DVDRAM GSA-H42N ' 'RL00' Removable CD-ROM
  15:         4,1,0   401) 'ATA     ' 'ST340810A       ' '5.33' Disk
  16:         4,2,0   402) *
  17:         4,3,0   403) *
  18:         4,4,0   404) *
  19:         4,5,0   405) *
  20:         4,6,0   406) *
  21:         4,7,0   407) *
  

  Note that the Optical device/CD-ROM with the name ’HL-DT-ST’ ’DVDRAM GSA-H42N ’ ’RL00’ Removable CD-ROM is identified with 4,0,0 (also called the SCSI number)

• Writing data to Optical device media

  cdrecord -v -eject speed=48 dev=4,0,0 puppy_linux.iso
  

  Where:

  • -v Show verbose output.
  • -eject Eject the media after successfully finished writing.
  • speed An integer representing multiple of audio speed. Refer manpage for more info.
  • dev Device number.
  • puppy_linux.iso Path to the file.