A long time ago I posted a question, the long and short of which was more or less: "I have a cd-rom (/dev/hdc) and cd-writer (/dev/hdd). After installing SuSE, they are set up as /dev/hdc and /dev/sr0 respectively. I changed the cdrom to use ide-scsi too (and fixed the device links), so now I have /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 respectively. When installing packages with Yast2, it still looks for installation medium on /dev/hdc, and gives me an error. Just adding the new device as an installation source doesn't work. How can I tell Yast2 to look for /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1?" Quite by accident I discovered how to do this at install time, although not afterwards. When you do the first setup - language, partitioning, ect. - there is an option to change bootloader options. You have to edit the grub config file there. It will (in my case) have kernel parameters: ... vga=0x317 hdd=ide-scsi splash=verbose ... Add (in my case) "hdc=ide-scsi" so that both devices will use ide-scsi. When the setup routine does it's initial reboot, it will pick them both up as scsi and configure yast's installation sources accordingly. Hans