Is this a problem with the media, or something to do with 2.6.20? (The last time I formatted a CD-RW was back in the 2.6.18 days...) nix@hades 208 /home/nix% cdrwtool -d /dev/cdrw -q using device /dev/cdrw 7294KB internal buffer setting write speed to 4x Settings for /dev/cdrw: Fixed packets, size 32 Mode-2 disc I'm going to do a quick setup of /dev/cdrw. The disc is going to be blanked and formatted with one big track. All data on the device will be lost!! Press CTRL-C to cancel now. ENTER to continue. Initiating quick disc blank Disc capacity is 295264 blocks (590528KB/576MB) Formatting track start=0, blocks=16, type=RESERVED start=16, blocks=3, type=VRS start=19, blocks=237, type=USPACE start=256, blocks=1, type=ANCHOR start=257, blocks=31, type=USPACE start=288, blocks=32, type=PVDS start=320, blocks=32, type=LVID start=352, blocks=32, type=STABLE start=384, blocks=1024, type=SSPACE start=1408, blocks=293568, type=PSPACE start=294976, blocks=31, type=USPACE start=295007, blocks=1, type=ANCHOR start=295008, blocks=160, type=USPACE start=295168, blocks=32, type=STABLE start=295200, blocks=32, type=RVDS start=295232, blocks=31, type=USPACE start=295263, blocks=1, type=ANCHOR Writing UDF structures to disc Quick setup complete! nix@hades 209 /home/nix% mount /mnt/pcdrw ls -l /mnt/pcdrw mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/pktcdvd/cdrw, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so UDF-fs: No partition found (1) pktcdvd: Fixed packets, 32 blocks, Mode-2 disc pktcdvd: Max. media speed: 10 pktcdvd: write speed 4x pktcdvd: 590528kB available on disc Other packet-written CD-RWs mount fine, but I haven't tried re-cdrwtooling any of them yet: it takes ages and I don't want to write off any more disks... -- `In the future, company names will be a 32-character hex string.' --- Bruce Schneier on the shortage of company names -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: packet-writing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: packet-writing+help@opensuse.org