Hi: I use a script (shown at the bottom to back up some of my working directories to a CD-RW. It was working fine last week. This week I updated my kernel to 2.6.5-7.104-default using YOU. Next thing I know, I cannot get md5sums to match between my .iso files and /dev/cdrecorder after a burn. I had a problem like this once before, and discovered the drive needed to be reset after a burn by an eject/load cycle. Since that time a few years ago, I have never had a failed burn. Until now. Worse, when I try to mount the burned CD-RW, I get some wierd corrupted approximation (in Konqueror) to the name of the first directory, then basically can't read the disk. But I discovered that after re-booting the computer, that I can get the md5sums to match and mount the disk just fine. This proves that someone, probably cdrecord is screweing up my drive or doing something that keeps me from correctly accessing the disk, but which is restored to sanity after a reboot. What is this, Windows? Does anyone know what is going on? It is interesting that someone just posted a thread "cdrecord vs SUSE" which indicates some of the usual stuff Suse does to break the software that it ships, that works just fine from the original sources. Here's my script: ------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash echo We are in the full.CD-RW.backup script! source ~/backup.scripts/backup.settings mv ~/cd-rw/full.backup.iso ~/cd-rw/full.backup.iso.last mkisofs -o ~/cd-rw/full.backup.iso -R -v -graft-points \ -exclude-list ~/backup.scripts/full.backup.exclude.list \ -path-list ~/backup.scripts/full.backup.dir.list echo \n du -h ~/cd-rw/full.backup.iso echo \n echo Press Enter to continue or Ctrl-Cto exit... read REPLY cdrecord dev=$CDRW_SCSI_DEV -v blank=fast -dao ~/cd-rw/full.backup.iso cdrecord dev=$CDRW_SCSI_DEV -eject cdrecord dev=$CDRW_SCSI_DEV -load echo \n md5sum ~/cd-rw/full.backup.iso md5sum $CDRW_DEV_PATH echo \n echo Press Enter or close when done... read REPLY exit ------------------------------------------------- #echo We are in the backup.settings file CDRW_SCSI_DEV=ATA:3,0,0 CDRW_DEV_PATH=/dev/cdrecorder -- ____________________________________ Christopher R. Carlen Principal Laser/Optical Technologist Sandia National Laboratories CA USA crcarle@sandia.gov