Try as I might, I can't get k3b to burn data that resides on a USB storage device on the fly. (ie a USB connected IDE hard drive) I attain read speeds of 25MB/sec with this device when copying files from the USB storage device. The CPU overhead associated with such copies is about 3% on my machine. Also K3B is exhibiting poor burning performance even when burning from an image on the internal hard drive. The CDROMs are rated at 16x burning. I could only burn them at 8x without experiencing a buffer underflow. I burnt the same CDROMs at 16 or 24x last week with a different kernel. I'm running 2.6.9-1.649 smp today. -- Kim Lux (Mr.) Diesel Research Inc