I have a dell precision with ATA DVD and CDRW drives. dmesg reports as below: ---------------------------- Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH5: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 ICH5: chipset revision 2 ICH5: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA Probing IDE interface ide1... hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 libata version 1.10 loaded. ata_piix version 1.03 ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64 ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE00 ctl 0xFE12 bmdma 0xFEA0 irq 169 ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xFE20 ctl 0xFE32 bmdma 0xFEA8 irq 169 ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:346b 83:5b01 84:4003 85:3469 86:1801 87:4003 88:203f -------------------------------- The problem is /dev/cdrom controls the dvd drive. I don't know what device note the cdrw was given. How do I found out? Also, then how do I make /dev/dvdrom map to the dvd player? I noticed this when attempting to use kscd to play a music cd.. kcsd is looking at /dev/cdrom. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"