Hello: This isn't a vital problem: it falls more under the category of "annoying things you want to go away." Just got a new laptop, and blew away windows and installed SuSE 8.0 on it. So far, seems to be working pretty well (even got the wireless card going with a minimum of cursing). The only thing: when the system boots, it looks as if ide-scsi is setting up the CD-RW/DVD drive 7 times: (from dmesg) hdc: no flushcache support scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA720 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 1 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 2 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr3 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 3 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr4 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 4 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr5 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 5 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr6 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 6 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr3: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr4: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr5: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr6: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray I haven't tried burning with the drive yet, but it seems to be reading both CD's and DVD's without any problem, so I'm sure the fact my system thinks there are 7 devices isn't causing too much problems. Like I said, it's more of an annoyance than anything. But...why is ide-scsi picking the drive up 7 times, and is there any way to get it to stop? Neil -- Neil Palmer, B.Ed. palmern@compusmart.ab.ca ICQ#636657 http://www.fdisk.org neilp@fdisk.org Perl Developer, CSM Systems neilp@csm-systems.com Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. --Ezra Pound