On Monday 13 March 2006 08:00, Paul Howarth wrote: >cdrecord -prcap Thanks for the cluex4 Paul. The response I get to that command, confirms that my drive, a LITE-ON DVDRW SOHW-1673S does not do DVD+RW disks, and thats what I have on the shelf, bought for a previous LITE-ON drive that did do them. So I have about 45 unusable disks unless the poster who said he could use them by manually fixating them can post his method to do so. -- Cheers, Gene People having trouble with vz bouncing email to me should add the word 'online' between the 'verizon', and the dot which bypasses vz's stupid bounce rules. I do use spamassassin too. :-) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.