here is a short descriptios of my problem. I have SuSE 8.1 and have one DVD drive and one cdrw drive. I had no problems burning (I used KOnCD) until I removed my DVD drive for a week to use it in another computer. Now I have it back... everything seems fine except: when I try to burn a data cd (I can still burn audio) my sytem goes down hard. any ideas where to look. I havn't changed any configs so whatever changes happend, they must be from SuSE automagically reconfiguring after a hardware change. ls -l /dev/dvd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 2002-10-21 23:24 /dev/dvd -> /dev/sr1 ls -l /dev/cdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2002-10-20 23:24 /dev/cdrecorder -> sr0 ls -l /dev/sr1 brw------- 1 neutrino disk 11, 1 2002-09-09 22:24 /dev/sr1 ls -l /dev/sr0 brw------- 1 neutrino disk 11, 0 2002-09-09 22:24 /dev/sr0 and these are the correct drives. (I tried it with eject ;-) cheers Aron PS the last /var/log/messages entries are as follows: Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Dec 13 00:04:16 aron modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module paride_protocol Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in it_module: Operation not permitted Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parame ters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in sysl og or the output from dmesg Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in smod char-major-97 failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Dec 13 00:04:16 aron modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module paride_protocol Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in it_module: Operation not permitted Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parame ters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in sysl og or the output from dmesg Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in smod char-major-97 failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Dec 13 00:04:16 aron modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module paride_protocol Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in it_module: Operation not permitted Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parame ters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in sysl og or the output from dmesg Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in smod char-major-97 failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: paride: version 1.06 installed (parport) Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: pg version 1.02, major 97 Dec 13 00:04:16 aron modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module paride_protocol Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg0: Autoprobe failed Dec 13 00:04:16 aron kernel: pg: No ATAPI device detected Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in it_module: Operation not permitted Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parame ters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in sysl og or the output from dmesg Dec 13 00:04:16 aron insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/drivers/block/paride/pg.o: in smod char-major-97 failed Dec 13 00:11:16 aron syslogd 1.4.1: restart. -- "For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat." "Like the ski resort of girls looking for husbands and husbands looking for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem." -- Alan McKay