BTW, I got my CD burner working. It was not feeding data to the CD burning process fast enough. I made some adjustments, like making it delay on the IDE bus, increasing the memory buffer size, and slowing down the burn speed. Now, it works, as long as the buffer size is larger than 35 meg. Here was my recipe for success: nice --20 mkisofs -v -T -l -J -R -V `date +%Y%m%d` . \ | nice -20 cdrecord -v minbuf=25 speed=0 fs=48m dev=0,0,0 -waiti -data -