Wizzards; Apparently yesterday , well okay, last night ,a stray bit or martian dust or perhaps venutian dust? Or someone is sticking pins in my voodoo doll again ?! My ide cdrecorder was setup by the os (SUSE8.0) to be ide-scsi on installation of said OS ... however , this cd drive seems to have fallen off the face of the earth ! Why I do not know... it was working when I finished last night ,and today it's missing , as in lsmod doesn't even show anything remotely related to ide-scsi Or a cdrecorder . The information in control center hasn't changed .. it still shows the hardware attached.. I have a polywell amd xp proc, 1gig sdram and a yanaha lightspeed" cdrecorder ... my "reader" is a good old scsi toshiba all the programs seem to find that... but, of course no backup can happen ( to cd) w/o the cdrecorder ... any suggestions? I don't think anything haschanged anywhere... I don't seem to have any rootkits anywhere.. and nothing untoward seems to have happened ... Any ideas ? How do I get it back the old tried and true append ide-scsi to the bottom of lilo etc? ( I'll have to look it up as I've not done it in a while.. but that isn't so bad... I've also lost the cd-ioslave setup but that is trivial ( I think <G>) should I manage to get the cdrecorder back I should then be able to setup the ioslave toshiba again,no? Could the random disappearnce of drives be a failing power supply? Any Harware guru's willing to consult on this? TIA j afterthought MTBF expired.Insert wallet in drive A: and press <Enter>.