I have two PC's and I'm trying to figure out why I can burn CD's on the f= irst=20 one but not the 2nd one. I'll try to explain how I set things up below. = Let=20 me know if you have any idea of what's going wrong on the 2nd PC. PC #1 - Dual CPU desktop with DVD-ROM and CD-RW drives PC #2 - Laptop with a CD-RW drive I can burn a CD using X-CD-Roast with PC #1 but not #2. This is puzzling= =20 because, I did burn a CD with #2 once and I aborted a burn that looked li= ke=20 it was going well. However, after many unsuccessful attempts (which made= =20 several CDs unusable) I reinstalled Red Hat 7.3 Personal and I haven't be= en=20 able to burn a CD on PC #2 since. On both PC's I have changed one line in my /etc/fstab file from this... /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudz= u,ro=20 0 0 to this... /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudz= u,ro=20 0 0 The only difference is that for PC #1, "cdrom" is "cdrom1" since Red Hat = set=20 up the DVD-ROM as "cdrom". I also, installed xcdroast 0.98 doing "rpm -Uvh *.rpm" in a directory=20 containing the following dowloaded files: cdrtools-cdda2wav-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm cdrtools-cdrecord-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm cdrtools-devel-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm cdrtools-mkisofs-1.11a23-1.i386.rpm xcdroaast-0.98alpha10-1.i386.rpm x-cd-roast lists the following drives in its setup screen: PC #1 - Bus ID [0,0[, Vendor: CyberDrv, Model: CW038D CD-R/RW, Rev: 120C Description: CD-ROM PC #2- Bus ID [0,0[, Vendor: MATSHITA, Model: UJDA330, Rev: 1.50, Description: CD-ROM I don't want to abuse this discussion list, but in case it helps I've inc= luded=20 the text output for a successful burn and an failed burn at the bottom of= =20 this message. Just ignore it if it's annoying. Thanks, Arif ******************** SUCCESSFUL BURN **************************** Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev=3D "0,0,0" fs=3D= 4096k=20 driveropts=3Dburnfree -v -useinfo speed=3D1 -dao -eject -pad -data=20 "/home/arif/BURN/track-01.img" ... scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 1.11a23 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J=F6rg Schil= ling TOC Type: 1 =3D CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' Driveropts: 'burnfree' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'CyberDrv' Identifikation : 'CW038D CD-R/RW ' Revision : '120C' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R9= 6R Drive buf size : 1806336 =3D 1764 KB FIFO size : 4194304 =3D 4096 KB Track 01: data 254 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 292 MB (28:57.37) =3D 130303 sectors Lout start: 292 MB (28:59/28) =3D 130303 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 229546 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session. 0 seconds. Operation starts. cdrecord: Turning BURN-Free on Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. BURN-Free is ON. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150 Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 01: writing 30 KB of pad data. Track 01: Total bytes read/written: 266829824/266860544 (130303 sectors). Writing time: 464.895s Fixating... Fixating time: 27.679s ******************** FAILED BURN **************************** Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev=3D "0,0,0" fs=3D= 4096k =20 -v -useinfo speed=3D1 -dao -eject -pad -data "/tmp/BURN/track-01.img" ... scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.22 pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 1.11a23 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J=F6rg Schil= ling TOC Type: 1 =3D CD-ROM Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' atapi: 1 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA' Identifikation : 'UJDA330 ' Revision : '1.50' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R Drive buf size : 1359872 =3D 1328 KB FIFO size : 4194304 =3D 4096 KB Track 01: data 129 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 149 MB (14:47.45) =3D 66559 sectors Lout start: 149 MB (14:49/34) =3D 66559 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, low Beta category (A-) (2) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 293290 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session. 0 seconds. Operation starts. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 73 02 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x02 (power calibration area is full) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 37.825s timeout 200s cdrecord: OPC failed.