Hi, Have just installed a BusLink 52x-24x-52x CD-RW drive onto a system that alho has a Zip drive. Have followed the hash of advice from (1) the CD-Writing How-to, (2) the SuSE 7.1 Configuration Manual, and (3) http://seismo.ethz.ch/linux/xcdroast.html. After (1) and (2), I could at least mount and read the CDROM as /dev/hdb (via append="hdb=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf). After (3), however, even this fails to occur. Furthermore, xcdroast (run as root) fails to detect anything to do with this drive, which replaces an older 2x-CDROM. In the interest of giving someone more knowledgeable a starting point, I'll start with (a) the boot message pertaining to the SCSI devices, (b) the relevant entries of my /etc/fstab (which no longer make sense to me), and (c) the output of the test recommended in the CD-Writing How-to. (a) boot message scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 13.A Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: LITE-ON Model: LTR-52246S Rev: 6S02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0) sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,0) sda : READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition table VFS: Disk change detected on device sd(8,4) SCSI device sda: 196608 512-byte hdwr sectors (101 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: sda4 (b) /etc/fstab lines (new) /dev/cdrecorder /cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user 0 0 (old line that worked was:) /dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 (for what it's worth, ls -l /dev/cdr* gives) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 11 02:07 /dev/cdrom -> hdb (c) test results (I just compiled a kernel that supposedly has the required modules, despite the protetstations of this test to the contrary....) Ensure the module sg is loaded automatically next time. insmod: sg: no module by that name found Ensure the module sr_mod is loaded automatically next time. insmod: sr_mod: no module by that name found The following is only needed for IDE/ATAPI CD writers. Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17 Using libscg version 'schily-0.1' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' '13.A' Removable Disk 0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-52246S ' '6S02' Removable CD-ROM 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * Thanks in advance for your time, patience, and advice. Steve Miller __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com