Hello I am using k3b v0.11.12-4 which is an update of the original version coming from SuSE 9.1. The kernel is the last one for SuSE 9.2 : 2.6.8-24.5. This distro runs on an Asus laptop L5D with a DVD/CD burner made by Toshiba. This is a SD-R6112 burner : DVD-R/DVD-RW and CD-RW. k3b seems to have a curious behaviour : the device "Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-R6112" is well recognized for erasing a burned DVD-RW and it is not recognized for erasing a burned CD-RW when k3b is used by a user account. All is good with the root account. In the /dev, there are two symbolic links : /dev/dvdrecorder -> /dev/hdb and /dev/cdrecorder -> /dev/hdb. The group for /dev/hdb is disk. With ou without the user account put in the group disk, the problem is the same. With an older version (0.10) of k3b with SuSE 9.0 AMD64, all is good. If someone can find the origin of this problem ..... Regards Pascal