To put it succinctly, xcdroast-0.98a15-2 can't detect my firewire BUSLink 48x12x48 drive, but loading k3b-0.11.10-1 ran flawlessly and burnt my iso (FC2-i386-disc1.iso at an outstandingly high average 40x or 6071 KB/s. Time 3:00 minutes - no verify. RaXeT