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It seems something I am going to need to be a bit long winded , p'rhaps
those w/ little tolerance should just pass on it <G>

started looking here ( SuSE's database) , w/ no joy. IT got me to this page
which said:
> SuSE Linux: Version 8.1
>
>                        Symptom
>
>                        Your computer is equipped with a CDRW drive and one
> or several "ordinary" CD drives. After
>                        installing SuSE Linux 8.1, the CD drives cannot be mounted.
>
>                        Cause
>
>                        Some modules are missing from the initrd.
>
>                        From SuSE Linux 8.1 on, the CD drive support is no
> longer compiled and kept in the kernel,
>                        but implemented by way of modules (cdrom and ide-cd).
> As opposed to the module ide-scsi,
>                        those modules (cdrom and ide-cd) are not included in
> the Initrd. That is why the SCSI
>                        emulation reaches all drives and not only those
> listed in the kernel parameter hdX=ide-scsi.
>
>                        Solution
>
>                        Insert the modules cdrom and ide-cd in the variable INITRD_MODULES in the file
>
>                        /etc/sysconfig/kernel
>
>                        To do this, open the YaST Sysconfig Editor. Select
> Base-Administration -> Common-Basics
>                        -> initrd_modules and insert both modules before the
> module ide-scsi. Be careful not to
>                        remove any of the modules listed, since they are necessary for booting.
>
>                        Now, execute as root user the command mk_initrd
>
>                        To do this, start a terminal program like konsole or
> xterm and log in as root user with the
>                        command su -. Then enter the command mk_initrd. If
> your boot manager is LILO, reinstall it
>                        with the command lilo -v. This does not apply for
> GRUB. From SuSE Linux 8.1 on, GRUB is
>                        the standard boot loader.
>
>
>                        Keywords: CD, DVD, LINK, MOUNT, WRONG, FS, INPUT, OUTPUT, ERROR, 81
>
>                        Categories: Hardware
>
>                        SDB-81_ide-scsi, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 09. Oct 2002
>                        SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 16. Oct 2002 by ip (sdb_gen 1.40.0)

Itseems not to apply to a real scsi system.
But I am willing to be educated here. Hardware isn't my speciality.

 Further , when I first installed 8.1 both drives worked as expected. "YOU
Update" yesterday , and *something* seems to have gone awry.

Not certain if this bit is useful for anyone, but , in the interest of
giving you guys all I have :
Got the command off some Suse Help page I was looking at something to be
done about GRUB, but to doesn't apply either

skronk:/home/blonde # cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.11a28 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.2.0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
scsibus0:
        0,0,0     0) *
        0,1,0     1) *
        0,2,0     2) 'TOSHIBA ' 'CD-ROM XM-6401TA' '1015' Removable CD-ROM
        0,3,0     3) *
        0,4,0     4) *
        0,5,0     5) *
        0,6,0     6) 'IBM     ' 'DDYS-T18350N    ' 'SA2A' Disk
        0,7,0     7) *
scsibus1:
        1,0,0   100) 'YAMAHA  ' 'CRW2200E        ' '1.0C' 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) *

NOW this is fstab, which has undergone a change, as have my user privileges
, I can't edit various files easily any more, not even w/ sux Command.. tho
nothing has changed that I can SEE in various documents there.
Fstab:

> /dev/sda2            /                    reiserfs   defaults              1 1
> /dev/sda1            swap                 swap       pri=42                0 0
> devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
> proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
> usbdevfs             /proc/bus/usb        usbdevfs   noauto                0 0
> /dev/cdrecorder      /media/cdrecorder    auto       ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
> /dev/cdrom           /media/cdrom         auto       ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
> /dev/fd0             /media/floppy        auto       noauto,user,sync      0 0

as I said , there is nothing that shows in the user privs so I am sort of
spooked to really get in an rip anythig  apart , willy nilly , as it were.

--
j

afterthought: Get Jah lost in da regge mon, and stroll along da beach!