[hamei]

If you need to transfer data between your machines don't burn CDs. That's the dumb way of doing it. Hook your machine into the network and use FTP or NFSv3.

Agreed on that but if you do want to burn CD's or DVD's for other purposes, the Schilly cdrecord tools build fine under Irix and work great. The initial switches on your command line are a pain to figure out but once you do, burning a DVD is faster, easier, and smoother than any other way. XCDRoast is sort of a pain in the butt in comparison.

AND some of Schilly's tools, for example probing a scsi chain, are faster and more comprehensive than any other method. I use to use that all the time in cases of "what the heck is going on with that disk ?" or similar.