Back in days, I used to use the k3b application to burn CD/DVD. I liked the program a lot, but after I started using Xfce as my DE, it started failing in various occasions. Then I tried xfburn. It's a light-weight, good program, but for some reasons, it didn't stick to me. After much of searching for alternative program for burning CD/DVD or creating ISO images, I came across to the cdrecord command. It was natural for me to like this little utility, after all, k3b calls it to burn them. Also, I use openbox as a stand-alone WM, it works perfect for me.

I don't do a complicated stuff with it; just making DVDs or burning from ISO images.

First, let's scan SCSI bus to determine the device description: cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a02 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2010 Joerg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.5.34 Using libscg version 'schily-0.9'. ... scsibus2: 2,0,0 200) 'hp ' 'BDDVDRW CH20L ' 'BC33' Removable CD-ROM 2,1,0 201) * 2,2,0 202) * 2,3,0 203) * 2,4,0 204) * 2,5,0 205) * 2,6,0 206) * 2,7,0 207) * ...

On my system, my DVD burner is attached to "2,0,0".

Burning ISO images onto disc:

cdrecord dev="2,0,0" speed=16 -v -eject path_to_ISO_image.iso

Blanking CD/DVD-RW:

cdrecord dev="2,0,0" speed=16 -v -eject blank=fast

"fast" option - Data is not overwritten.

cdrecord dev="2,0,0" speed=16 -v -eject blank=all

"all" option - Data is overwritten and entire media is erased.

That's all!
-gibb

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