On my SUSE 9.0 box I had a DVD-ROM drive and a separate CD-RW drive, both IDE devices. With them I have been able to watch DVDs and write CDs. The DVD was on /dev/hdb and the CDRW was on /dev/hdc. Recently I swapped these out for a single DVD-RW drive, an NEC 2500A, again an IDE drive. It is now on /dev/hdb. The drive will mount and read CDs and DVDs but I can not get any of the GUI burning packages to recognise it as a writer, let alone write a CD to it. I am confident that the drive is working because, to test it, I did a install of Mandy10 on the same machine as a dual boot and it works without problem. In the SUSE 9.0, /etc/fstab did not get automatically updated and I went through a 'system repair' from the install CD, deleting the references to the old drives that had been removed and adding an entry for this new drive. Unfortunately this has not helped. Here's some config info:- linux:/home/colin # modprobe ide-scsi linux:/home/colin # cdrecord -scanbus 2,0,0 200) 'SMSC ' 'USB 2 HS-CF' '1.25' Removable Disk 2,1,0 201) * [...] 2,7,0 207) * ### No details of device 1 but I don't know what to do about it or why. colin@linux:~> cat /etc/fstab /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hdd1 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda1 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/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/hda3 /data1 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 /data2 reiserfs user 1 2 /dev/hda6 /data3 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda7 /data4 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /data5 reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder auto rw,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/hdd2 /Mandy10 auto noauto,user 0 0 colin@linux:~> ls -l /dev/dvdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2004-04-03 22:18 /dev/dvdrecorder -> hdb colin@linux:~> I am now at the limit of my knowledge as to where to hunt for a solution to this problem, does anyone have any clues? Thanks in advance. -- Colin@SpudULike.me.uk