> How many times did you press Ctrl-C, just once? Not sure, but probably just once.
> Ask the author for a well-behaved cdrecord. ;-) Hohohoho... :) I think I've given him enough arguments recently already, but I should post it as a mention. > You could try resetting the drive using sg_reset Good point, but as you say, if the ide-cd driver shot itself it won't unload. In general, the trend seems to be to not use SCSI on an IDE device. I didn't try hdparm this time at all because in the past it achieved nothing and eventually caused a hard kernel lock. Thanks for your insights, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
