'All your base are belong to us'

Or: traipsing through digital dust. More like, clawing around looking for words to write.

It 's 00:36, and I'm still up. Just got my LG CED 8080-B CD-RW (it's *old*, I know) working on FC2. Funny, I never did try to write CDs on FC. Always did that on WinXP, using Nero. man cdrecord wasn't much help for me. I used cdrecord2.01.1-0.FC2.1 from Dag's Apt Repository (lots of interesting RPMs there, by the way). Tried to do everything the manual said.

• First, I scanned for the CD-RW:
  

  
  $ sudo cdrecord -scanbus
  Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
  Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
  Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
  Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to  http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
  Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
  scsidev: 'ATA'
  devname: 'ATA'
  scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
  Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
  Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
  cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH (#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
  scsibus1:
       1,0,0   100) 'LG    \\
     ' 'CD-RW CED-8080B ' '1.05' Removable CD-ROM
       1,1,0   101) *
       1,2,0   102) *
       1,3,0   103) *
       1,4,0   104) *
       1,5,0   105) *
       1,6,0   106) *
       1,7,0   107) *
  



• Wow, lots of "gobbledy-geek". So I tried a different tack:
  

  
  $ sudo cdrecord -checkdrive
  Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
  Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
  Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
  Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
  Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
  scsidev: '/dev/cdrom'
  devname: '/dev/cdrom'
  scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
  Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
  Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
  cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH @(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
  Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
  Version        : 0
  Response Format: 1
  Vendor_info    : 'LG      '
  Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B '
  Revision       : '1.05'
  Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
  Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
  Driver flags   : MMC SWABAUDIO
  Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
  



• You'd think I'd have taken the hint. But no, so I proceeded with:
  

  $ cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=1,0,0 -dao ~/Downloads/WBEL/liberation-respin1-binary-i386-1.iso
  Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling
  Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
  Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
  Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
  Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version.
  TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
  scsidev: '1,0,0'
  scsibus: 1 target: 0 lun: 0
  cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot open '/dev/sg*'.
  Cannot open SCSI driver.
  cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
  cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
  



• Darn. That didn't work. Then it hit me. It was so simple, I'd have to bash my head with the keyboard.
  

  $ sudo cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=/dev/cdrom -dao -eject -data ~/Downloads/WBEL/liberation-respin1-binary-i386-1.iso

Geez. It must be my cold or something.

Anyway, so I got that working. Hooray for me. As for the title, well, it's a tribute to the Zero Wing game intro, a fine digital relic of the 80s. Speaking of relics, several found objects during my recent
temp job as a bodegero in our department's storeroom:

• A TRS-80 user's manual.


• Norton's guide to the IBM PS/2


• Windows NT! ;D

They're still happily residing in the stacks in the storeroom, to be dusted off later by some other network janitor. On with cleaning and plugging.

Move 'zig'.

For great justice.