On modern drives, they do their own marking, for the most part. If you are getting Media errors, it's time for a new disk. It might be worth doing a low level format on the disk, but I would here after think of this disk as sketchy. How old is it? -- In stores NOW! Elmer's Gluons! http://www.hacksaw.org -- http://www.privatecircus.com -- KB1FVD