The aforementioned nForce2 box has a CD writer. Finally got around to getting it going today. It turns out that to get it going under Linux, you have to fool the kernel into thinking it’s actually a SCSI drive

If you have to do this, the following script will make life easier for you. Save it as /usr/bin/cdburn, and from now on use cdburn instead of cdrecord.

BTW try cdburn -scanbus first to make sure that it works. If you get an error about not finding /dev/pg* or you needing to be root, try rebooting or removing all the modules and running it again. It didn’t work for me until I tried running cdrecord in the experimental ATAPI mode, which locked the system up, forcing me to reboot.

#!/bin/bash

http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin/tips/src/debian-cdrw.html

rmmod ide-cd rmmod cdrom modprobe scsi_mod modprobe sg modprobe ide-scsi modprobe cdrom modprobe sr_mod

cdrecord $*

rmmod sr_mod rmmod cdrom rmmod ide-scsi rmmod sg rmmod scsi_mod modprobe cdrom modprobe ide-cd