Scsi-emulator in SuSE 7.1

I have finaly got the SuSE 7.1 and it is just fine. But in 7.0 I was able to use the ide cd burner plextor 12-10-32 ti write cd, but somehow I can not find the text in the Configurationbook that came with 7.1, I can not find /sbin/init.d/boot.local, it is not on my system. I am using kernel 2.4 What can I do, can someone help me.....????? Gunnar