Hi Michael. I just was wondering if you ran kb3 setup, It says that you have to add other drives if there is other ones that are not writers. KB3 setup is on the main menu under multimedia>CD, I'm New at this too. Tony On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 16:37, Michael wrote: Hi , I have just started using Linux and I have just loaded SuSE 8.1 and I am having problems loading the cd drives for cd writing ,I have tried xcdroast and k3b and in both cases when I run the program the writer is shown in the boxes as both the reader and writer drive, There are drop down menus but they only have the one drive available this is the writer can anyone help me please, I have checked the hardware and both cd rom drives are shown but only one is shown has a icon on the desktop. Regards Micheal -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-multimedia-e-help@suse.com