Hi All, I am using the following command to burn an ISO Image in from Fedora core 4 Version.... cdrecord -v dev=1,1,0 FC-5-x86_64-disc1.iso I am using a Sony Rewritable DVD drive DRU - 820A. And its giveing the following error. I understand that it doesnto reognize the drive for writing. But what should i do now? Is there any yum updations available for this? Exception cdrecord: No write mode specified. cdrecord: Asuming -tao mode. cdrecord: Future versions of cdrecord may have different drive dependent defaults. cdrecord: Continuing in 5 seconds... Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,1,0' scsibus: 1 target: 1 lun: 0 cdrecord: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. [root@localhost Fedora Core 5]# Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/