> > Which device is the cdrw? hdc or hdd? > > Confirm you are doing this only to the cdrw. > > Pybe Best tesl ever is to see where /dev/cdrom points to: ls -l /dev/cdrom If that's your only CD device that's the device you should be writing things on. If you have multiple CD drives then do a ls -l /dev/cd* to figure them out and see which is which either by cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI or though your kernel logs during boot: egrep -i -C2 -e "DVD|CD" /var/log/dmesg
