Hello all! I run a 2.4.19-SMP "home brewed" kernel on 8.1. My GRUB menu.lst states: title linux kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hde3 hdc=ide-scsi vga=788 initrd (hd0,0)/initrd But i cant seem to get the IDE CD-RW to work. i get all these ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 66 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 68 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 70 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 72 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 74 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 76 ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 78 cdrom: open failed. I *think* i have the right mudules installed, atleast a lsmod gives me: ide-scsi 8912 0 I have VmWare installed, but even without it running it fails. Any clues? As it is now, i still run a Windows2000 box just to be able to burn CD's. I would like to retire that beast (or turn it into something more useful) -- /Rikard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rikard Johnels email : rjhn@linux.nu Web : http://www.rikjoh.com Mob : +46 70 464 99 39 ------------------------ Public PGP fingerprint ---------------------------- < 15 28 DF 78 67 98 B2 16 1F D3 FD C5 59 D4 B6 78 46 1C EE 56 >