All - I have SuSE 9.1/kernel 2.6.5-7.75-default. I installed the kernel sources, and patched with packet-2.6.5-rc3.patch p00002_dvd+rw.patch p00003_dvd-rw-packet.patch Had some problems with the compile, changed all occurrences of struct packet_command cgc; to struct cdrom_generic_command cgc; and then everything compiles OK. Load the module, do the typical setup pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/cdrecorder mount -t udf -o rw,auto,user,noatime /dev/pktcdvd0 \ /media/cdrecorder cat > /media/cdrecorder/testfile This is line 1 This is line 2 This is another line ^D cat /media/cdrecorder/testfile This is line 1 This is line 2 This is another line umount /media/cdrecorder pktsetup -d /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/cdrecorder eject And it all seems fine. But when I remount the CD-RW, the file is not there pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/cdrecorder mount -t udf -o rw,auto,user,noatime /dev/pktcdvd0 \ /media/cdrecorder cat > /media/cdrecorder/testfile cat: /media/cdrecorder/testfile: No such file or directory What am I missing here? The drive is an IDE CD_RW/DVD-ROM combo drive, Sony CRX810E. Machine is a Sony Vaio PCG-GRX500 laptop, Pentium4M with 512MB RAM, 30GB Toshiba HD, and Radeon 9500LY video. Mark Almeida mailto:markea@earthlink.net -- Powered by SuSE Linux Pro 9.1/Evolution 1.4.6 This is a Microsoft-free computer