On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 07:46, Pybe wrote: > > Is the cable to the CD writer shared with any other device, such as a hard > > disk? That might cause problems - see the -immed option to cdrecord. > > > > There are 4 ide devices ide1 has 2 hard drives and ide2 has cdrw and cdrom > > Tried cdrecord --dev=/dev/hdd -immed blah.iso and still hangs exactly the same. > Which device is the cdrw? hdc or hdd? Confirm you are doing this only to the cdrw. > Pybe