Re: Learning BDI Emc - Outputs

["William Scalione" <wscalione-at-nc.rr.com>]

Jack,

Yes you can burn it in a windows machine. If you have the Adaptec
software, copy the file to your hard drive and reread my previous
message to burn it. I imagine other cd burning software will probably
work the same.

Bill





> Paul And Bill-
>
> I guess I didn't make myself clear.  A friend of mine with a cable
> modem and a cd burner downloaded the file and burned it on a CD for
> me.  He handed the cd to me.  I assumed it was formatted just like
> the BDI 2.04 cd that I started with and shoved it into my Linux
> machine, hit delete on start up and switched it to boot on CD (The
> Linux CD drive is just a read only drive.)  The boot failed with a
> message something like non-bootable media so I then put the cd in my
> windows machine and looked at the contents and see a file named
> bdiemc-2.11-01.img (556,466Kb).  It was then that I went back to the
> source site and saw the information that led me to believe that I was
> to put the cd in the linux machine and issue the "cdrecord" command.
>
> Now from your responses it implies that when my friend burned the
> downloaded file and burned it to the cd he should have done it via
> Linux in order to get the proper format. Is this correct?
>
> I have a cd burner myself, however it isn't in the Linux machine.
> Can I put the cd in my windows machine and burn another one to the
> proper format?
>
> Jack Ensor
>
> Paul wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jack
> >
> > >From "man cdrecord", you need the --scanbus option to determine the dev
> > setting of your drive. For my setup, dev=0,0,0
> >
> > [root-at-Talia root]# cdrecord --scanbus
> > Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
> > Linux sg driver version: 3.1.20
> > Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
> > scsibus0:
> >         0,0,0     0) 'CyberDrv' 'CW038D CD-R/RW  ' '100C' Removable
CD-ROM
> >         0,1,0     1) *
> >
> > This assumes that you have the relevant scsi modules loaded IDE drives
need
> > to use the scsi emulation mode provided be ide-scsi. A read of the
> > CD-Writing-HOWTO is recommended.
> >
> > Regards, Paul.
> >
> > On Tuesday 08 January 2002 11:16 pm, Jack Ensor wrote:
> > > Paul -
> > >
> > > I just got a download and a CD burned of bdiemc-2.11-01.img from
> > >
> > > http://www.yty.net/cnc/bdi.html
> > >
> > > and the instructions say to use the command:
> > >
> > > cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -pad -data bdiemc-2.11-01.img
> > >
> > > where speed and dev parameters are edited to match your
> > > CDR-configuration.
> > >
> > > My CD drive is 32X but I have no idea what the dev parameters may be.
> > > Have you any suggestions on this?
> > >
> > > Jack Ensor
>
>