Now I'm researching the CD-writable support for Linux. Somebody wrote a bare-bones program a few years back that only worked with SCSI drives. Then they went off to gainful employment and let the program flounder. It still seems to work so nobody is messing with it. But... very few folks have SCSI re-writables. Most are IDE. Here's the documented solution - you install a driver which masquerades an IDE drive as a SCSI drive. OK, that would probably work, but it's what is known in the industry as a hack. How hard could it be to write a driver table? But I'm not going to write it... Not if I've got a hack that works. Same reason nobody else has fixed it yet.