Hi I have 4 of this CD-Writers and one produces this output. (The other 3 work flawlessly.) -- Output of "cdrecord speed=8 dev=6,0,0 -eject fs=30m -v <Image>" -- Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '6,0,0' scsibus: 6 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.19 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' atapi: 0 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : RELADR SYNC LINKED Vendor_info : 'TEAC ' Identifikation : 'CD-R58S ' Revision : '1.0H' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-R. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 2732032 = 2668 KB FIFO size : 31457280 = 30720 KB Track 01: data 660 MB Total size: 758 MB (75:06.26) = 337970 sectors Lout start: 758 MB (75:08/20) = 337970 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 4 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11079 (97:34/21) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar) Manuf. index: 11 Manufacturer: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 21879 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write in 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Starting new track at sector: -150 Track 01: 0 of 660 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 FF FF FF 6A 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 16 21 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x21 Qual 0x00 (logical block address out of range) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.248s timeout 40s write track data: error after 0 bytes Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 22.115s Fixating... cdrecord: Input/output error. close track/session: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 5B 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 72 04 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x72 Qual 0x04 (empty or partially written reserved track) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 0.008s timeout 480s cmd finished after 0.008s timeout 480s Fixating time: 0.038s cdrecord: fifo had 479 puts and 1 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. -- End -- I had a power outage a few days ago and since then the cdwriter "doesn't work" anymore. I think it's "Game over" for it. Am i right? System: Linux-Kernel 2.4.9 Dual PIII 933Mhz 3GB RAM ... With exactly this configuration this specific cdwriter (And the other 3) worked before the power outage. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]