On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 10:28:29AM -0700, Andy R wrote:

> Just for giggles I went to the link on Marcus
> Comstedt's page pointing to windows binaries for
> cdrecord:
> 
> ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/alpha/win32/
> 
> I downloaded the file called:
> 
> cdrtools-1.11a12-win32-bin.tar.gz
> 
> I extracted this into my path in my cygwin environment
> (www.cygwin.com), and cdrecord works fine. Just like
> the directions you already have. 
> 
> Assumptions: You already know your device name. I'm
> not sure that this will work with an IDE drive, mine
> is scsi. 
> 
> Warnings: I ran cdrecord -scanbus which will show you
> where your scsi burner is. This promptly gave me a
> blue screen. I already knew my device but I wanted to
> see what it said anyway. It's been a month or so since
> I reinstalled WindersME so it's probably hosed again
> anyway...

I have Win98, an IDE CD writer, and cdrecord under Cygwin works
perfectly for me, even -scanbus.

I've never bothered trying to make a DC burn with a GUI, Marcus'
instructions work first time under Cygwin.

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