In the past I have seen a few messages here about finding a cheap solution
for burning CDs on SGI.
Unfortunately the commercial software for IRIX is expensive (around $1000)
and the free software 'cdrecord' somehow did not work for me (mainly I had
SCSI termination problems & buffer underruns).
As an alternate, I utilized my PC to burn these data CDs. The method has the
following steps.
(1) Make an image of the directory tree that needs to be backed up.
(2) Ftp the image file to PC.
(3) Burn the CD from this image file.
The process is very smooth and proceeds without any problems. With a write
speed of 1.2 Mbps, it takes about 8 minutes to write 600 Mb of data. The CD
is now readable on any machine and the complete unix directory structure
will be visible.
Even though I haven't tried, I expect Macs can be used for burning CDs in a
similar manner.
The only drawback with this system is creating multi-session CDs.
I am interested to know whether any one has successfully recorded CDs using
'cdrecord' directly on SGI using IRIX.
--
Gopal Subramaniam,
NMR Manager, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Queens College, Flushing, NY 11367
Received on Sat Apr 13 2002 - 09:14:41 MST