diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index f0e1433f..612255be 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Package: raster
 Type: Package
 Title: Geographic Data Analysis and Modeling
-Version: 3.6-23
-Date: 2023-07-03
+Version: 3.6-24
+Date: 2023-10-05
 Imports: Rcpp, methods, terra (>= 1.7-29)
 LinkingTo: Rcpp
 Depends: sp (>= 1.4-5), R (>= 3.5.0)
diff --git a/R/writeStartStopGDAL.R b/R/writeStartStopGDAL.R
index 867bb905..daa82d62 100644
--- a/R/writeStartStopGDAL.R
+++ b/R/writeStartStopGDAL.R
@@ -64,8 +64,11 @@
 
 	writeStart(r, filename, overwrite=overwrite, gdal=gdal, filetype=format, datatype=datatype, progress=0, NAflag=NAflag, progressbar=FALSE, sources=sources) 	
 	
+	if (inherits(x, "RasterStack")) {
+		x <- brick(x, values=FALSE)
+	}
+	
 	attr(x@file, "transient") <- r
-
 	x@file@datanotation <- datatype
 	x@file@driver <- 'gdal'
 	x@data@fromdisk <- TRUE