Hello all, I have a PLEXTOR CD-R 12/10/32A and I can't access it under SuSE8. When I click on either of the two icons on my desktop (CDROM and CD Recorder -?). I get the following message: Could not mount the device. The reported error was /dev/cdrom Input/output error I am pretty sure that my problem is due to the fact that the CD ROM drive is a CD-R and that I need to create a soft link to CDROM =>/dev/sg0 or something like that. I have tried, unsucessfully, to mount my CDROM using various commands such as : mount /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom mount /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom, etc. I would greatly appreciate it if someone would give me a pointer on how I can I mount my PLEXTOR CD-R drive. Below is a "log" which shows SuSe attempts to mount the CDROM when I was trying to mount it.... Thanks in advance. Checking /dev/hdc for cdrom... Testing /dev/hdc for cooked ioctl() interface Device /dev/hdc is not a CDROM Testing /dev/hdc for SCSI interface /dev/hdc is not a SCSI device Checking /dev/hd3 for cdrom... Could not stat /dev/hd3: No such file or directory Checking /dev/hdd for cdrom... Testing /dev/hdd for cooked ioctl() interface Unable to open /dev/hdd: No such device or address Testing /dev/hdd for SCSI interface /dev/hdd is not a SCSI device Checking /dev/sg0 for cdrom... Testing /dev/sg0 for cooked ioctl() interface /dev/sg0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM. Testing /dev/sg0 for SCSI interface generic device: /dev/sg0 ioctl device: /dev/scd0 Found an accessible SCSI CDROM drive. Looking at revision of the SG interface in use... SG interface version 3.1.22; OK. CDROM model sensed sensed: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A 1.01 Ciao James Pearson E mail (mai) : james.pearson@wanadoo.fr E mail (bur) : james.pearson@wanadoo.com Web page: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/j.pearson/ What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need.