> > cdrecord: Illegal write mode for this drive. > cdrecord: Drive does not support TAO recording. > This usually means what it sais. As the software develops so will the error messages as well. Since more modes are supported it wll become more picky. So could you please do a cdrecord -scanbus or cdrecord -scanbus -dev=ATAPI if you have an ATAPI CD drive? Then next time you try to burn something with cdrecord use the '-v' flag to get excessive reporting and post it here so we can see what cdrecord thinks of your CD drive.