Hello, I've just started trying to see if I can get packet writing to work with my HP 8230 CDWriter. I applied packet-2.4.17.patch to the 2.4.17 kernel, recompiled. The CD Writer is recognised and maps to /dev/sr1. Under the new kernel I ran "cdrwtool -d /dev/sr1 -t 4 -q" to prepare the CD-RW for writing. I'm using cdrwtool from the usftools package, v 0.9.4 (Debian version 0.9.4-6). cdrwtool got as far as: ============================================ using device /dev/sr1 setting speed to 4 cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! 4085KB internal buffer setting write speed to 4x Settings for /dev/sr1: Fixed packets, size 32 Mode-2 disc I'm going to do a quick setup of /dev/sr1. The disc is going to be blanked and formatted with one big track. All data on the device will be lost!! Press CTRL-C to cancel now. Initiating quick disc blank Disc capacity is 275744 blocks (551488KB/538MB) Formatting track ============================================ And it's been stuck there for more than half an hour so far. The green light on the CD writer was flashing for much of the time, but has just turned off. I don't know if that indicates normal activity, or if the drive has timed out and switched itself off after a long period of inactivity. The cdrwtool command has still not returned, ps gives it status "D" (uninteruptible sleep, IO related). Is there anything wrong that I'm doing, or anything else I should check to get it working? Any other paths to setting up the CD-RW other than "cdrwtool -q" ? Or do I just have to accept that packet writing is yet broken for my CD writer? Thanks for any help, Drew Parsons -- PGP public key available at http://people.debian.org/~dparsons/drewskey.txt Fingerprint: A110 EAE1 D7D2 8076 5FE0 EC0A B6CE 7041 6412 4E4A