Greetings ! When I ........ cdrecord -v -dummy dev=1,1,0 <some_file(s)> I get.......... Track01 0 M padding up to secsize and then cdrecord "hangs". BTW, cdrecord-1.8a23, Adaptec 1522a, Yamaha cdr400t. At bootup I get [possibly related]...... WARNING: ATS_BUSY and ATS_DATARQ does not go off Appreciatively, Courtney