All of a sudden I'm finding myself unable to burn a cd rom with cdrecord. I'm having the same problem on three different systems, each of which is running fully updated FC5. The cdrecord on each of these machines is cdrecord-2.01.01.0.a03-3, unchanged since March last. I'm also quite certain that I had no problems burning back around the beginning of May. I've tried a few different discs, and scsi, ide, usb and firewire burners--all with the similar failures like the following: cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s write track pad data: error after 0 bytes BFree: 0 K BSize: 1506 K Starting new track at sector: 0 Track 12: 0 of 6 MB written.cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1F 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 27 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x27 Qual 0x00 (write protected) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) resid: 63488 cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 200s write track data: error after 0 bytes cdrecord: A write error occured. cdrecord: Please properly read the error message above. Writing time: 11.980s Average write speed 9.1x. Fixating... Fixating time: 0.003s cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 1 gets. cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%. Is it me? My media? Or something in some library? I've downversioned two kernels, but still get the same failure. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org