I am attempting to format a 4.7 singleside dvd-ram disc. I first run fdisk, setting a single partition, then running 'mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/hdc' after sector 300 or so the light goes off, and checking /var log/messages shows several hundred examples of: Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 69471360 Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x50 Nov 23 15:03:55 miverna kernel: ide: failed opcode was 100 What am I doing wrong, and what is the right way? Joe -- SuSE Linux 9.1 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.8-20041116124251-default / i686 | Posted from: miverna 3:21pm up 5:38, 6 users, load average: 0.11, 0.37, 1.67 Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown, "The Washington Post", January 26, 1977 nqs@tmcom.com | http://tigger.tmcom.com/~nqs/blogger.html