I checked the archives and the only answer it seemed to give me was to make sure I unmount my cdrw drive. Typing umount /mnt/cdrom yields umount: /mnt/cdrom is not mounted (according to mtab) When using K3b I get the error: cdrecord ----------------------- scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Error trying to open /dev/scd0 exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA bailing out.. Austin