"Craig S." wrote:
 Also any ideas on how to approach making backups to my HP CD-Writer or
> just writing to it in general? It reads disks just fine but I would like
> to be able to burn some cd's.
> 
What model of CD-writer is it ? 

Some HP writers won't work under Linux. (for instance 7200i)
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