On 9 Oct, millward wrote: > The error messages all look like this: > hdb: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error} > error=0x54 Try dd with a known good (pressed not burned, data not audio) CD. I have a funny feeling your problem is simply you're trying to read a bad CD-R or a CD-R on a drive that is too old to support them properly.