Many thanks go to the readers of this HOWTO, who contributed actively to its contents. As I don't have access to a cd-writer myself, reports about real-live setups and experience have always been of great value to me.
helped to improve the handling of newer kernels
Howto write audio-cds directly from mp3.
hint about dis-/reconnect disabled by default in the ncr driver
good arguments for dropping cdwrite from the HOWTO
noted the problem in 4.9.
noticed the need of a recent version of mount to utilize the loopback device
contributed hint about writing audio-CDs
pointer to kernel patch to read Joliet CD-ROMs
information and experience about writing audio-CDs
URL of the mkhybrid tool
helped to develop the recipe on 1:1 copies.
information about IDE-CD-R and newer kernel versions
Reported problem with pre-initialized writers when booting via loadlin.
information about cdrecord
gave information about the cdwrite-mailinglist
tested writing of an ext2 CD-ROM (see 4.4)
had the idea to put non-ISO-9660 filesystems on a CD
suggested using defective CD-ROMs as coasters for drinks
Futhermore, I would like to thank the following people for reporting spelling mistakes: Bartosz Maruszewski <B.Maruszewski@zsmeie.torun.pl>, Ian Stirling <ian@opus131.com>, Brian H. Toby.
End of the Linux CD-Writing HOWTO. (You can stop reading here.)