Well, went to the SuSE db online and followed some things as well as the suggestions from the list. Here's what I've done so far and the results I appended lilo with hdc=ide-scsi. then I gave the command after boot: insmod.static ide-scsi Oh, and I read the boot.msg and found this"On Sunday 02 September 2001 02:13 <4>hda: Maxtor 91366U4, ATA DISK drive <4>hdb: WDC AC310200R, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-208B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: CD-ROM Drive/F5B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hde: Maxtor 2B020H1, ATA DISK drive And then ran command: (which shows the cdrecorder is recognized) bash-2.05# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) * 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'N.38' Removable Disk 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CD-R/RW SW-208B ' 'BS01' Removable CD-ROM 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * But the sys console gave some messages that were encouraging, until I ran KOnCD and a mod fail message came - the messages are as follows: Sep 2 17:31:42 cb952536-a kernel: Vendor: SAMSUNG Model: CD-R/RW SW-208B Rev: BS01 Sep 2 17:31:42 cb952536-a kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Sep 2 17:31:42 cb952536-a kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Sep 2 17:31:42 cb952536-a kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module paride_protocol Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: init_module: Operation not permitted Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: insmod char-major-97 failed Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module paride_protocol Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: init_module: Operation not permitted Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.4-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: insmod char-major-97 failed Sep 2 17:37:45 cb952536-a kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) According to the SuSE online article I should further append lilo for the Max_scsi_lun to be 1. I have given the command ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom and will also append the lilo for the max scsi luns. I will reboot and report the results. If anyone has any further suggestions, please feel free to submit (for my self and any others that my have this problem - I will submit a summary (if successful) to SuSE and the Portal for further references TIA and wish me luck. Curtis