Burning bin cue images with an atapi cd burner

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Burning bin cue images with an atapi cd burner

So you want use your atapi cd burner to burn a bin/cue image to cd but you need cdrdao to do it. But cdrdao (like cdrecord) needs a SCSI cd burner to work you say! Recently atapicam was commited to -Stable that allows you to send SCSI commands over ide. So now we can use cdrdao/cdrecord with ide burners!


Step 1
update to -Stable #read the handbook at freebsd.org
%man atapicam #for more in depth info

Step 2
compile and install a kernel with these options:
device atapicam #this is _not_ in Generic
device scbus #this is in Generic
device cd #this is in Generic
device pass #this is in Generic
(be sure and reboot : )

Step 3
install cdrdao
#cd /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrdao
#make install clean
( if you want to install cdrecord it's here /usr/ports/sysutils/cdrtools , you don't need it for bin/cue images but it's a great program)

Step 4
run this:
#cdrdao scanbus (this will show you info about your cd burner)
1,0,0: SONY, DVD-ROM DDU1621, S1.6
2,0,0: HP, CD-Writer+ 9500, 1.0e

Step 5
It's time to burn the bin/cue files. For those that don't know bin cue files are mostly used for burning SVCD, VCD movies to cds.
#cd /to/where/you/put/the/bincue
#ls
relaxedthemovie.bin relaxedthemovie.cue
(this is what I use to burn them below)
#cdrdao write --device 2,0,0 --driver generic-mmc --speed 4 relaxedthemovie.cue

that's all there is to it. Hope this helps out!
you can always find me at irc.openprojects.net #freebsd

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Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/bchunk.
It can turn .bin and .cue files into .iso images you can then burn with burncd.