I'm currently using the Sony DRU-500A and USB Iomega Predator CD-RW to packet write UDF on Mandrake 9.0. Both are working great. Can I just use cdrwtool to format a DVD-RW on the Sony drive and then packet write to the DVD-RW? I wanted to ask before spending hours trying to format it. I saw on the archives that someone else had done this with a different DVD-RW drive. And as far as I can tell, this is the only way to incrementally write to DVD-RW in Linux, since cdrecord-ProDVD doesn't allow multisession (yet) on DVD-R/RW. ( O O ) .". --oOOo--( )--oOOo-------------/V\--- Shaun Green // \\ 256-961-7868 /( )\ shaun.green@msfc.nasa.gov ^'~'^