All - It now appears that I may have a problem with the CD-RW drive, although I have not had any problems using it to write CD-R media. I plugged in my FireWire DVD-RW/CD-RW drive, formatted a different CD-RW disk and was able to write to it using packet writing. So, I can in fact write to CD-RW media successfully using a different drive. The only restriction seems to be that I must do the writing as root; even if I mount the /dev/pktcdvd1 device using mount -t udf -o rw,noauto,nosuid,user,exec /dev/pktcdvd1 \ /media/dvdrecorder and it shows up as /dev/pktcdvd1 on /media/dvdrecorder type subfs \ (rw,nosuid,nodev,fs=udf,user=markea) but it does not let me write or copy files as a regular user, only as root. -- Powered by SuSE Linux Pro 9.1/Evolution 1.4.6 This is a Microsoft-free computer