On Monday 20 March 2006 08:23, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > Hello, > My K3B suddenly can't burn DVD anymore. Whenever I tried to burn DVD, it > complained that it couldn't find media in /dev/hdc (although the DVD+R is > there) and asked me to insert an "empty of appendable Double layer DVD+-R". It seems that growisofs (which is used by K3B) is having problem writing to my device too: $> growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=file_test.iso Error trying to open /dev/dvd exclusively ... retrying in 1 second. :-[ READ DISC INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=09h/ACQ=01h]: Input/output error Same error message in /var/log/message. Hm... RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Dept. Physics and Astronomy University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN