On Thursday, October 9, 2003, at 04:34 AM, KevinO wrote: > If you want a GUI tool I suggest gcombust. For simple data disks, the > command > line is easier and faster. > > All of the GUI tools are front-ends for cdrecord, mkisofs, dd etc.. > They all > use these command-line tools to do the actual work, behind the > scenes... Now you've done it! I wasn't going to get into this for awhile but you sucked me in. Man cdrecord was very informative. Then again, I've written a few SCSI device drivers. I don't know if a newbie would understand it at all. It was all I needed to get my G4 working with the internal DVD burner and the external CD burner. I still can get the iBook to mount /dev/dvd but by Googling around i found a long thread where someone got it working. I just need to read and understand it. It's good to know that the iBook is a special case and that there is a solution. Thanks for the help.