Dominik Schulz wrote: > Hi, > > as far as I can see the kernel doesn't complain about anything. Nothing > in the syslog or anywhere else. > > One thing I forgot to mention: It's no permission problem. I get exactly > the same output as root. > > I've put the output of > wodim -VV blank=all -dev=2,0,0 | Executing 'mode select g1' command on Bus 2 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s | CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00 | Sending 60 (0x3C) bytes of data. | Write Data: 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 05 32 41 C4 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 96 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 | Errno: 5 (Input/output error), mode select g1 scsi sendcmd: no error | CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00 | status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION) | Sense Bytes: 70 00 04 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 08 03 00 00 | Sense Key: 0x4 Hardware Error, Segment 0 | Sense Code: 0x08 Qual 0x03 (logical unit communication crc error (ultra-dma/32)) Fru 0x0 | Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) | resid: 60 | cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s It seems commands to transfer data to the device suffers transmission error. Does the same thing occur even when you're using a SATA device? The device is already configured at UDMA/33, so it can't be a cable detection problem. Weird.... Just in case, can you try to reseat or replace the cable? Of the two IDE connectors, where is the dvd writer connected? -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html