I had a problem with my system recognizing the DVD burner as a USB 2.0 storage device. Someone pointed out that if there is media in ths device, it is seen as storage - even if it is blank media! Makes sense - albeit little to me. With that tidbit - the device is recognized. Now, when I put in a blank DVD-R, it report it finds a disk - DVD-R Sequential (empty) media but that I need to insert an empty medium (DVD +-R(W)). I looked around but don't see any errors. The Debug output reports: Devices ----------------------- MAD DOG MD-16XDVD9A2 1.F3 (/dev/sr0, ) at [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW] [DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW Sequential; DVD +RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4241N A100 (/dev/hda, ) at /media/cdrecorder [CD-R; CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM] [DVD-ROM; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW] [SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R16; RAW/R96P; RAW/R96R] System ----------------------- K3b Version: 0.11.22cvs KDE Version: 3.4.0 Level "b" QT Version: 3.3.4 Kernel: 2.6.11.4-21.9-default I am considering upgrading to 0.12.3 .. but this worked last week (burned 4 DVDs - one right after another without any errors)! I did do an YOU upgrade this week but none of these affected (that I recall) any k3b libs. Any ideas? Rich -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 8BF9 990D 8853 5CD8 AB44 8F48 7BC8 5D4B 1B25 7AEC found at pgp.mit.edu Remember, all Windows-based machines are fault tolerant. They run Windows don't they?!