Until just a couple of days ago I had no trouble writing CDs on this 7.1 SuSE system, but for the past few trys I have been getting repeated failures when trying to copy a CD. The Fifo buffer fills completely, then the writing begins and makes it to between 1 to 3% then the Fifo buffer begins to empty while writing continues until the buffer is at zero at which time the system beeps, the CD tray ejscts and I get the Error writing tracks failure notice. Read and write speeds are both set to 8 and I'm working in DAO mode. I'm writing to 80 min disks and just realzed that I had the CD-R/RW Type: set to 74 but I wouldn't think that this is the cause in as much as it has always been there. CD for reading is a NEC CD-ROM Drive:466. Prnted below is the full output of cdrecord.out from the last attempt a few minutes ago. Any suggestion would be appreciated. It was so nice when it worked a few days back. pregap1: -1 Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,4,0' scsibus: 0 target: 4 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' atapi: 0 Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : SYNC LINKED Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'CD-R PX-W124TS' Revision : '1.06' Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : SWABAUDIO Drive buf size : 2373168 = 2317 KB FIFO size : 16777216 = 16384 KB Track 01: data 614 MB padsize: 30 KB Total size: 705 MB (69:53.81) = 314536 sectors Lout start: 705 MB (69:55/61) = 314536 sectors Current Secsize: 2048 ATIP info from disk: Indicated writing power: 5 Is not unrestricted Is not erasable Disk sub type: Medium Type A, high Beta category (A+) (3) ATIP start of lead in: -11634 (97:26/66) ATIP start of lead out: 359849 (79:59/74) Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 3 Manufacturer: CMC Magnetics Corporation Blocks total: 359849 Blocks current: 359849 Blocks remaining: 45313 Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 8 in write mode for single session. Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready. Performing OPC... Sending CUE sheet... Writing pregap for track 1 at -150 Starting new track at sector: 0 CDB: 2A 00 00 00 31 68 00 00 1F 00 cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 32 00 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 09 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x09 (write error - loss of streaming) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 12800 (valid) cdrecord: Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error write track data: error after 25903104 bytes status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Writing time: 53.370s Fixating... CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) Trouble flushing the cache Fixating time: 0.003s cdrecord: fifo had 474 puts and 409 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 5 times empty and 1 times full, min fill was 0%. dave