Dear List Members, I have a Gigabyte GA-7DXR motherboard which has 4 IDE interfaces. (/dev/hda thru /dev/hdh). I currently have the following IDE devices: hda: IBM-DTTA-371010 ATA DISK drive hdb: IC35L040AVER07-0 ATA Disk drive hdc: DVDROM 10X, ATAPI CE/DVD-ROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive On the motherboard are 4 additional interfaces for drives. I just purchased a Sony CD-R/RW (CRX220A1) which needs to be installed. I am currently running SuSE 7.3 but purchased 8.2 and will do a new install after I install the CD-R/RW drive. Now the question. What would be the best arrangement for the drives. I plan on keeping the hard drives on hda and hdb. I am thinking of putting the CD-R/RW on hdc and moving the DVDROM drive to hde. This would make the following configuration: hda / hdb (IDE0) 2 hard drives hdc / hdd (IDE1) CD-R/RW and ZIP drives hde / hdf (IDE2) CDROM-DVD and maybe an extra hard drive as slave. This would allow both CD drives to be masters. Is there a better setup considering I want to be able to burn CD's and maybe copy CD to CD. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. Thanks, Terry -- SuSE Linux 7.3 (i386) 2.4.16-4GB Sun May 4 15:00:00 UTC 2003 3:00pm up 128 days, 22:36, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00