When I look in Yast Control Center I see the following for my CD-RW: CD-RW CRX100E Bus: IDE CD type: cdrom Class (spec): CD-ROM Class: Mass Storage Device Device: CD-RW CRX-100E Evice name: /dev/hdd Model: CD-RW CRX100E Rev: 2.0h Unique key: bunch of characters driver: ide-default notready: Yes old_unique_key: some other characters When I look at /var/log/messages, I see the following: kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 kernel: cdrom: open failed kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide mdprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module ide-cd MY CD-RW drive used to work until I recompiled the kernel last night. MY IDE CD-ROM drive works fine and i s using the ide-cdrom driver (instead of the the ide-default driver. Recommendations? Cheers, wmeler