Howdy all. After using 'cdrecord' during my formative years with Linux, I finally decided to try to burn an audio CD in DAO mode - so I'm messing around with cdrdao. My .toc file seems to be in order - (no errors when I 'cdrdao show-toc table.toc'). And my simulation burn "finished successfully" - ('cdrdao simulate table.toc') However, I get the following error when do it for real. $ cdrdao write table.toc Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller <andreas@daneb.de> SCSI interface library - (C) Joerg Schilling Paranoia DAE library - (C) Monty Check http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/drives.html#dt for current driver tables. Using libscg version 'andreas-0.5-UNIXWARE_Patch-and-resmgr' 0,0,0: PHILIPS CDD4851 CD-R/RW Rev: C3.7 Using driver: Generic SCSI-3/MMC (raw writing) - Version 2.0 (options 0x0000) Starting write at speed 12... Pausing 10 seconds - hit CTRL-C to abort. Process can be aborted with QUIT signal (usually CTRL-\). Turning BURN-Proof onUsing 16 byte P-Q sub-channel data mode. Executing power calibration... ?: Input/output error. : scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 13 00 00 00 00 73 03 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x03 (power calibration area error) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 3.087s timeout 20s ERROR: Power calibration failed. ERROR: Use option --force to ignore this error. ERROR: Writing failed. ---------------------------------- Any ideas anyone? Thanks for reading! Eric Pierce __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com