Hardwareinfo: <4>hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-612F, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8160B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 4>scsi: limiting sg entries to 204 <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: CD-RW GCE-8160B Rev: 2.01 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 I cannot really see, what's the reason that my DVD is not activated. Can I use strace, and if what shall it trace on ?. -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards - vy73 de OZ4KK. Erik Jakobsen - eja@urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org SuSE linux 8.1 - VMware 3.2 - WIN98SE.