K3B is a great CD/DVD burning GUI for burning. I have burned TONS of CDs and 
DVDs with it. Also with 2.6 kernels you do not need SCSI emulation, you can 
just access the IDE drive directly, no problemo. I've never used Debian but I 
predict there is a package for K3B in Debian.

On Friday 27 May 2005 05:47 am, Richard Hoffbeck wrote:
> I just went through this to get my backups to DVD working. There are
> patches available to make cdrecord work with DVD writers but I'm not all
> that fond of the SCSI emulation required to make that work. If all you
> want to do is burn an ISO there is a command line utility called
> growisofs that makes the whole burning process fairly easy - including
> being able to write diretly to an IDE device. The usual GUIs have
> wrappers for the dvdtools as well.
>
> --rick
>
> Justin Kremer wrote:
> >>Which is annoying. What do you guys use to burn DVDs? Preferably
> >> something I can apt-get (;
> >
> >iirc, apt-get install dvdrtools
> >I believe that dvd+rw-tools can be a helpful package as well.
>
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