User reported list of supported drives with cdrecord on all UNIX versions

Supported drives with cdrecord-2.0:

Cdrecord should work with:

All SCSI-3/mmc compliant drives
All ATAPI/mmc compliant drvies

It seems that all drives that have been initially released in 1999 or later are MMC compliant.

If a recent drive does not work with cdrecord, you most likely found a firmware bug.


Cdrecord is currently maintained with the following drives:

Plextor PX-W241040A
Plextor PX-W121032S
Plextor PX-W121032A
Plextor PX-W124
Plextor PX-W8220
Plextor PX-W4220
Plextor PX-R820
Plextor PX-R412C
Yamaha CRW-8832
Yamaha CRW-4416
Yamaha CDR-400
Ricoh MP-7040A
Ricoh MP-7040S
Ricoh MP-7060S (available only to Thomas Niederreiter and Heiko Eißfeld)
TEAC CD-R55S
TEAC CD-R58S
TEAC CD-W54E
Sanyo CDR-Bp2
Sony CDU948S
Sony CRX-140S (available only to Thomas Niederreiter and Heiko Eißfeld)
Sony CRX-145E
COMPRO/Matsushita/Panasonic CW-7502
Philips CDD-2000
Goldstar 8080
Freecom Traveller

Drives that have been reported to work or that should work:

Should work in this case means that Andy MCFadden listed them in http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq05.html to be identical to working drives:

ACER CR-1420C
ACER CDRW 6206A
AOPEN CRW9420 (Re-writeable)
BTC BCE 621E
COMPRO CW-7502
Dysan CR-622 ???? See Wearnes 622
Dysan CR-1622
DynaTec CDM-240J (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4)
DynaTec CDM-240 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
DynaTec CDM-400 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
Freecom Traveller
Grundig CDR-100
Hewlett Packard 4020i
Hewlett Packard 6020i
HP C4324/C4325 (HP SureStore 4020i/6020i)
HP 7100
HP 7110
HP 7200
HP 8100
HP 8210
HP CD-Writer+ M820
Hi-Val CD-R (see Pinnacle RCD-4x4)
IMATION CD-RW IMW040420
JVC XR-W2001 (uses TEAC code - see below and this page - audio not working)
JVC XR-W2010 (uses TEAC code - see below and this page - audio not working)
JVC XR-W2020 (uses TEAC code - see below and this page - audio not working)
JVC XR-W2080 (first MMC drive from JVC)
Kodak PCD-200 or Kodak PCD-200 Plus
Kodak PCD-225
Kodak PCD-240
Kodak PCD-600
Matsushita CW-7502
Matsushita CW-7503
Matsushita CW-7582
Memorex CR-622 ???? See Wearnes 622
Memorex CR-1622
Memorex CRW-1622
Microboards PlayWrite 2000 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
Microboards PlayWrite 4000 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
Microboards PlayWrite 4001RW
MicroNet MasterCD Plus 4x4 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
MicroNet MasterCD Plus 4x6
Mitsubishi MCA-CDRW 226
Mitsubishi DD6430A
Mitsumi CR-2401-TS
Mitsumi CR-2600-TE
Mitsumi CR-2801-TE
Mitsumi CR-4801-TE
Mitsumi CR-4802-TE ???
Nomai 680.rw
Olympus CDS615E
Olympus CDS620E (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
Olympus CD-R2x6 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
Optima Dis Kovery 650 CD-R
OTI CDRW 965
OTI-975 Socrates 1.0 (CDRW)
Panasonic CW-7502
Panasonic CW-7503
Panasonic CW-7582
Philips CDD 521 (CDD521/02 Revision: 2.06 has bad firmware - seems not to work)
Philips CDD 521 (upgraded units only: ID: CDD521/10 Revision: 2.07)
Philips CDD 522
Philips CDD 2000
Philips CDD 2600
Philips CDD 3600
Philips CDD 3610
Philips CDRW400
Philips Omniwriter 26
Philips Omniwriter 26A
Philips CDD4201 CD-RW
Pinnacle Micro RCD-1000 (see TEAC/JVC): Need to upgrade firmware to 2.35
Pinnacle Micro RCD-5020 (see TEAC/JVC - audio not working)
Pinnacle Micro RCD-5040 (see TEAC/JVC - audio not working)
Pinnacle Micro RCD-4x4
Pioneer DW-S114X
Plasmon CDR 4220
Plasmon RF-4100
Plasmon RF-4102
Plasmon CDR 4400 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
Plasmon CDR 480
Plextor PX-R24CS (use cdrecord driver=ricoh_ro1420c and report inquiry)
Plextor PX-R412C
Plextor PX-R820
Plextor PX-W4220
Plextor PX-W8220
Plextor PX-W124
Plextor PX-W121032S
Plextor PX-W121032A
Plextor PX-W161032A
Plextor PX-W241040A
Procom PCDR 4 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
Ricoh RO-1420C
Ricoh MP-6200
Ricoh MP-6200I
Ricoh MP-6201
Ricoh MP-7040A
Ricoh MP-7040S
Ricoh MP-7060S
SAMSUNG SW-206
Sanyo CDR-Bp2
Smart & Friendly CD-R1002 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
Smart & Friendly CD-R1004 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
Smart & Friendly CD-R2004 (use cdrecord driver=sony_cdu924 and report inquiry)
Smart & Friendly CD-R2006 PLUS
Smart & Friendly CD-R2006 PRO
Smart & Friendly CD-R4000 (use cdrecord driver=yamaha_cdr100 and report inquiry)
Smart & Friendly CD-R4006
Smart & Friendly CD-R4012
Smart & Friendly CD-RW226
Smart & Friendly CD-R8020
Sony CDU920S
Sony CDU924S
Sony CDU926S
Sony CDU928S
Sony CDU940S
Sony CDU948S
Sony CRX-100
Sony CRX-140S
Sony CRX-145E
Taiyo Yuden CD-WO EW-50
TEAC CD-R50S
TEAC CD-R55S
TEAC CD-R56S
TEAC CD-R58S
TEAC CD-W54E
That's Write CDR-N820S
Traxdata CDRW-2260EL-PRO
Traxdata CDR-4120
Traxdata CDRW-4260
Turtle Beach 2040R (use cdrecord driver=ricoh_ro1420c and report inquiry)
WAITEK WT2036
Wearnes CD-R622
Wearnes CD-R632P
Yamaha CDR-100
Yamaha CDR-102
Yamaha CDR-200
Yamaha CDR-400(Firmware revision 1.0d and up otherwise upgrade)
Yamaha CDR-401
Yamaha CRW-4001
Yamaha CRW-2260
Yamaha CRW-2261
Yamaha CRW-4260
Yamaha CRW-4261
Yamaha CRW-4416
Yamaha CRW-6416
Yamaha CRW-8424
Yamaha CRW-8832
Yamaha CRW-2100
Yamaha CRW-2200

Multi-session has not been tested with the Plasmon RF-4100

All companies that support me with SCSI command reference manuals and drives will get (continued) support in the following releases.

Unsupported drives with cdrecord-1.9


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