mikes@ubuntuland:~$ cdrecord dev=/dev/hdc /home/mikes/Desktop/dsl-3.0.iso cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01.01a01 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Joerg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to . The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.15-23-386 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer. cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris. scsidev: '/dev/hdc' devname: '/dev/hdc' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Open by 'devname' is unintentional and not supported. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27 Using libscg version 'debian-0.8debian2'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (debian-0.8debian2 '@(#)scsitransp.c 1.91 04/06/17 Copyright 1988,1995,2000-2004 J. Schilling'). Device type : Removable CD-ROM Version : 0 Response Format: 1 Vendor_info : 'PLEXTOR ' Identifikation : 'DVDR PX-712A ' Revision : '1.09' Device seems to be: Generic mmc2 DVD-R/DVD-RW. cdrecord: This version of cdrecord does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. cdrecord: See /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.DVD.Debian for details on DVD support. Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE VARIREC GIGAREC FORCESPEED SPEEDREAD SINGLESESSION HIDECDR Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R16 RAW/R96P RAW/R96R GigaRec is off. Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 48 in real TAO mode for single session. Last chance to quit, starting real write 0 seconds. Operation starts. Turning BURN-Free off cdrecord: Success. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error CDB: 54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0 Sense Code: 0x02 Qual 0x00 (no seek complete) Fru 0x0 Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) cmd finished after 33.947s timeout 60s cdrecord: OPC failed.