Aaron Trumm wrote: >hello all - is there a cd recorder that can record audio cds to an ide cd >recorder driver? > >I have xcdroast, which doesn't seem to do audio - it has an option to play >audio files from the harddrive (and doesn't see my soundcard and I can't >figure out how to load audio files anyway - weird) > >and I have of course the command line cdrecord - but that seems to only deal >with scsi drives - right? > > Some quick notes... You might want to read this article: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/01/05/record_cd.html Don't mind the first part, the second section is what you want to read. Follow the pointers to the various other articles, you'll be burning CDs like a pro in no time. Most Linux distros accomodate IDE drives by emulating SCSI. What distribution are you using ? Run this command (as root) to see how your system identifies your CD-RW: cdrecord -scanbus Best, == dp