Still problems with CDwriter delivered with iMac (transparent blue casing bought in march). This iMac is thus equipped with an ide CDwriter (unfortunately not SCSI) I have thus to emulate the CDwriter as a SCSI driver in order to be able to use cdrecord. I follow the same procedures as at home with a PC and a ide CDwriter: 1) in /etc/lilo.config: have line append = "hdb=ide-scsi" (then type instruction lilo) 2) in /etc/modules: have line alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi 3) add line /dev/scd0 /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Everything goes fine I reboot instruction mount /cdrom : OK cd is mounted I type "eject": error: unable to eject, last error: input/output error I read the man of eject: I type eject scd0: OK it ejects Now I can try to burn a CD Mkisofs: OK no problem to make an image and to mount it with mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 etc... I test cdrecord -scanbus: SCSI device is 0,0,0 I try now cdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 dir/image.iso and.... .... my dear SuSE 7.1 on iMac "crashes" no error messages, no explanation, just crashes: only solution: hard stop. Anybody can give me an idea how to burn a CD on an iMac? -- Alain Barthélemy Section de Biosécurité et Biotechnologie Institut de Santé Publique R. J. Wytsman, 14 1050 Bruxelles