Ok, I tracked down the problem, sort of. I can't use cdparanoia on the cdwriter (ide-scsi) as a normal user, but it works fine as root. This is the message I get: --------------------------------- hans@sigaar:~/music/ian> cdparanoia -d /dev/sr0 -B -v cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001) (C) 2001 Monty <monty@xiph.org> and Xiphophorus Report bugs to paranoia@xiph.org http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ Checking /dev/sr0 for cdrom... Testing /dev/sr0 for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/sr0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/sr0 for SCSI interface No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device /dev/sr0 --------------------------------- I did a chmod a+r /dev/sr0 but it didn't help. How can I enable the proper access for normal users to this device? Thanks Hans == Download ringtones, logos and picture messages at Ananzi Mobile Fun. http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/goto.pl?mobile