Hi Per, On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 09:58, Per Bjornsson wrote: > Yes, it's likely the SCSI command filtering that got stuck into 2.6.8 > (there are a couple of threads about this on LKML) in order to prevent > ordinary users (i.e. without CAP_SYS_RAWIO) from sending potentially > dangerous commands to drives (e.g. firmware updates). The list of > allowed commands apparently isn't long enough to let ordinary users > write CDs. > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.2/0091.html There also seems to be another issue with writing audio CDs in 2.6.8: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3659 . Note that according to the comments near the bottom the mentioned patch does *not* entirely fix the problem... Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research