Improved Guide To Burning Dreamcast Discs From Linux

Here is my attempt to rewrite the guide to burning dreamcast discs from Linux.

It is an updated and enhanced version of this post:

Burning Dreamcast CDRs from Linux

Which is stolen from here:

Using mkisofs and cdrecord to Burn a Dreamcast CD-R

My plan is to break down the guide a little more and give better explanations about what is happening at each stage. This was done on an Ubuntu desktop machine running the development release of Hardy Heron on 2 March 08.

Burning superfamicast

douglas@attic:~$ cd Software/Dreamcast/
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast$ ls
anotherworld genesis nesterdcse scummvm spectrum
audio.raw nesterdc REminiscence-0.1.8dc.rar sms superfamicast

douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast$ cd superfamicast/
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$ ls
audio.raw ip.bin superfamicast

douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -multi -audio audio.raw
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds…
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to .
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-25-386
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: ‘/dev/hdc’
devname: ‘/dev/hdc’
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by ‘devname’ is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root?
: Operation not permitted
Using libscg version ‘debian-0.8debian2’.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 ‘@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling’).
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : ‘HL-DT-ST’
Identifikation : ‘RW/DVD GCC-4520B’
Revision : ‘1.00’
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root?
: Operation not permitted
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52 in real TAO mode for multi session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 705600/705600 (300 sectors).
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -msinfo
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-25-386
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root?
: Operation not permitted
0,11702
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$ mkisofs -l -r -C 0,11702 -G ip.bin -o tmp.iso
audio.raw ip.bin superfamicast/
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$ mkisofs -l -r -C 0,11702 -G ip.bin -o tmp.iso superfamicast/
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
mkisofs: Warning: -C specified without -M: old session data will not be merged.
34.92% done, estimate finish Sun Jun 25 12:53:56 2006
46.54% done, estimate finish Sun Jun 25 12:53:56 2006
58.18% done, estimate finish Sun Jun 25 12:53:56 2006
69.83% done, estimate finish Sun Jun 25 12:53:57 2006
81.46% done, estimate finish Sun Jun 25 12:53:57 2006
93.11% done, estimate finish Sun Jun 25 12:53:57 2006
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 5304
Total directory bytes: 10240
Path table size(bytes): 66
Max brk space used 22000
42972 extents written (83 MB)
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc -multi -xa tmp.iso
cdrecord: No write mode specified.
cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode.
cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults.
cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds…
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling
NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord
and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version.
Please send bug reports and support requests to .
The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-25-386
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
scsidev: ‘/dev/hdc’
devname: ‘/dev/hdc’
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Open by ‘devname’ is unintentional and not supported.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root?
: Operation not permitted
Using libscg version ‘debian-0.8debian2’.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 ‘@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling’).
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : ‘HL-DT-ST’
Identifikation : ‘RW/DVD GCC-4520B’
Revision : ‘1.00’
Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-ROM.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : MMC-2 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R
Error: Cannot gain SYS_RAWIO capability.Is cdrecord installed SUID root?
: Operation not permitted
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 52 in real TAO mode for multi session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts.
Track 02: Total bytes read/written: 64040960/64040960 (31270 sectors).
douglas@attic:~/Software/Dreamcast/superfamicast$

Burn Dreamcast CDR from Linux

Dreamcast Linux

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Contents 1 Burning Dreamcast Discs From Linux 1.1 Introduction And Credits : Please Read 1.2 The Nicked And Edited Introduction to burning Dreamcast Discs From Linux 1.3 An Actual Example 1.4 A Little Bash Script 1.4.1 burn2dream.sh 1.4.2 burn2dream.sh Directory Structure 1.4.3 Downloads

Burning Dreamcast Discs From Linux

In my case ubuntu linux, Dapper Drake, with command line tools and a bog standard cd rewriter.