Hi Well Franklin thanks a lot! Everything is working fine now! Just to recap here's what I did: * made sure both the CD-rom and the CD-writer were unmounted * su'd to root * created a backup of /etc/lilo.conf cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.20030317 * edited /etc/lilo.conf with Emacs added 'hdc=ide-scsi' to the append line of the entry I use to boot * ran lilo * cd to /dev/ * ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom * ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder * exit (to return to regular user) * logout and reboot I can mount data-CD's with both the CD-rom and the CD-writer, the CD-writer is still accessible by Xcdroast, Yast2 can still install new software from the CD-rom and mount /media/cdrom mounts the CD-rom and mount /media/cdrecorder mounts the CD-writer! It's almost a perfect world! Thanks -- # Mertens Bram "M8ram" <bram-mertens@linux.be> Linux User #249103 # # SuSE 8.1 Pro kernel 2.4.19-4GB i686 128MB RAM # # 6:47pm up 10 min, 3 users, load average: 1.72, 1.39, 0.75 #