Originally, I posted an inquiry regarding trying to get my CDR/W drive working. Although, not an officially supported piece of hardware, I was forwarded the following hopeful link. http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue57/stoddard.html Having read that: I know I have cdrecord and mkisofs installed. I have confirmed the ide-scsi module is present. However, several of the config files I was instructed to edit there do not exist on SUSE8, at least in the location or form the help page above-referenced would imply The problem begins when I try to get to /etc/rc.d/rc.local. No such file exists. /etc/rc.d is a shortcut to a different directory. Also, there is no /etc/conf.modules I realize I'm lower on the learning curve than many. So I'll go back to the SUSE manual and docs and see what I can find. If you have any constructive suggestions, I'd sure appreciate it. Thank you in advance, R. Cooper <rhcooper@yahoo.com> "Being is not a real predicate." I. Kant