This page should help you to get your burner up and running under 8.0. Although it says it's for 7.2, I followed it exactly and can burn cd's under Mandrake no problem, rather simple actually. mandrakeuser.org is a real good resource for all things Mandrake. http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hremov3.html Here's a quick question for anyone who burns cd's under Linux: Can you use other programs while burning or does it hog all the resources like Windoze? Sometimes, I just have too many things to do than to wait for a cd to finish burning to get my work done. Dan