Burning CD in Linux

First determine what devices are available:

• cdrecord -scanbus

Then use this cdrecord command line arguments:

• cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 driveropts=burnproof -dao -eject DATAFILE.iso
  • leaving out the -speed=X argument will cause cdrecord to query the CD blank for its purported speed
  • -dao option makes it possible to MD5 the result with md5sum -b /dev/cdrom
  • -eject argument will pop the disk. Insert it, unmount if it automounts, and run md5sum

More details at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features/articles/burn_iso_images.html