You would think I was running W98 or something... I am using a Sony Spressa USB CD-RW. The first few burns I had no problem, then one time it completely locked up my system to the point where I had to completely shut it off. No mouse or keyboard response (including our favorite ctrl + alt + backspace). Now it locks it up every time I try a burn, including dummy burns. It always locks up somewhere in the burn cycle (where we get to watch the percentage of burn left to go). I created 3 coasters trying to see if it was a setting issue, then went to dummy burn but still it would lock up. So I have 2 frustrations here... the first is that I seem to not be able to burn any cd's anymore, the 2nd is that I have a complete lockup of my linux box. One more thing.... I have had some random complete lockups (2 I believe). The last one happened while running konqueror in Gnome. I tried to go to the Redhat site and it completely locked up. The CD-RW issue is consistant though. I did take the CDRW off of supermount since it was creating some other craziness. I still have regular cd and floppy on supermount though for testing. I did get a complete burn of disk 1 of Redhat 7.1, disk 2 however started the wave of lockups and I even tried disk 1 in dummy mode to see if it just didn't like the file of disk 2... but still got lockup. This is pretty major... ===== SI Reasoning [EMAIL PROTECTED] gnupg/pgp key id 035213BC __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/