> Dave Burgess <burgess@cynjut.neonramp.com> wrote:
> 
> Dave> I looked at the SCSI code in the kernel, and that lack
> Dave> of astonishment is reasonable, since the code for
> Dave> command 0x25 basically says "this is a ROM - of course
> Dave> there's no space" and returns automatically.
> 

I tried another test.

I put in a CD I had already written to, and the system seemed to like
it just fine.  

It's almost like a disklabel problem - with a label on the disk, 
I think I can write, but without something already on the disk, it 
fails.