Dear listers, I am trying to install a slim DVD/CDROM drive to an AMD64 based linux box running SuSE9.0Pro. MB is AOpen MK89-L, and its bios is nforce3 150. (1) When the box is switched on, the bios seems to detect the drive as a DVD/CDROM drive correctly. (2) When I tried to boot from the side 1 of SuSE9.0 DVD, however, the kernel cannot see the DVD drive, so that in the first stage of installation, the process stopps. (3) I found out that DW-28E is recognised by kernel as cdrecorder; /dev/cdrecorder is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc. By browsing many web sites, I learnt that this DW-28E is widely usued on notebook computers, and that with 32bit OS it seems to work fine for DVD playback. I have not yet check this with a 32bit box, though. I do not know if my problem is specific to 64bit, either. My questions are: (1) Is someone of you using this with amd64? (2) Is there any quick tricks to use DW-28E as a DVD drive? Thank you for your attention. yoriaki fujimori