My PleXWriter 8423Ti is IDE and as hdd I could read data cd's and play music cds. But, I couldn't burn. I have used ide-scsi emulation and cdrecord recognizes the PleXWriter as scd0. My first test was to try to burn a copy of the Office52 subdir, about 250MB. I got an error which aborted the burn after about 64MB was written to the CDR. Then I tried the "Copy CD" function of xcdroast. At between 15-30% of reading the image off of the CD it stalls. I can watch xcdroast and cdrecord switching back and forth, using KDE System Guard. One sleeps while the other is running. Then both stay asleep. I've tried various speeds of reading and 8 gives the largest percentage, but no setting give 100%. Also, when I try to mount a data CD using mount -t iso8660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom it complains that /dev/scd0 is not a block device. mount -t vfat /dev/scd0 /cdrom gives the same error msg. What;s the problem? JLK