After having upgraded to a standard SuSe 7.3 I was glad to learn that th problems with atapi cdrom should be past. I found out with 7.2 that my hda drive does not like DMA so after checking my dmesg for the normal suse bootup I discovered that it contained a kilobyte of error messages. Run in the safe mode the dmesg had nothing abnormal to report. I decided to ask the list to give me the solution to exclude hda from the dma inclusion (as was possible in 7.2) but in the meantime I started trying to finally burn my first (yes really) cd. Much to my astonishment in the safe mode the cdrecord -scanbus showed that the cd drive was not included anymore. It only showed my iomega zipdrive ;-(. How do I get it back? And what has the DMA thing to do with the recognition of the atapi cd?