Thanks Carlos for your reaction. It put me on the right track and now I have been able to solve the problem. The major issue was that, because of my usage of "loadlin", the parameter "hdX=ide-scsi" (where X=c in my case) should also be added by hand in the "loadlin parameter file" in the Windows partition.. I had only added it via YaST2 in the "appendline" for the bootloader configuration, but in that way it does not reach loadlin ! As a result, the ide-scsi emulation was NOT started. After having made that addition, the booting included the ide-scsi emulation all-right. And indeed, as you pointed out, the CD-drive is recognized as sr0 and NOT as sdc0 as is indicated in the documentation. After having done the appropriate settings for sr0 there was no problem anymore in mounting the writer. Bottom line, there are two flaws in the "IDE CD Writer" document from SuSE's Support Database : 1. The required manual action for loadlin users should be mentioned. 2. The mentioning of /dev/sdc0 should be replaced by /dev/sr0 That would save a lot of people a lot of nuisance (I believe).
Thanks again and kind regards,
------------------------------ Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands