As all the burn program do not function (always get an error at burning time) I used plane cdrecord to burn an iso image. With the command: cdrecord -v -eject -dummy -speed=2 dev=0,0,0 myimage.iso verything went fine. The light on the cdrom tray blinked as expected and it looked so good that I skipped the dummy and went for the real burning. After the last chance following text apeared and the burning sesion was very fast over. What the heck is wrong with my cdrw? What does this information I have a Pentium II, 400mhz, atapi cdrom with a write speed of 2, scanbus is checked and ok. Since SuSe 7.1 I have been able to write (only) one cd with this machine, all other times it just did not work. SuSe 8.1 is certainly not the cause. ----------------------------------------- Performing OPC... cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 00 00 00 19 00 09 5D 19 73 02 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x73 Qual 0x02 (power calibration area is full) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid) cmd finished after 3.236s timeout 60s cdrecord: OPC failed. cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. -------------------------------------------