On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 12:51 +0200, Thanos Zygouris wrote: > Thanks for replying... > It's a IDE drive: > 1) wodim --devices > 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'CD/DVDW SH-S182D' > > 2) dmesg | grep sr0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > > And i did try to disable hal...nothing changes... What IDE controller is it connected to and what driver is that using?