Hello again. Now the nod's in /dev should be reactivated again. But I can only see one scsi device in my boot.msg now. I can see my cd-rw drive on sr1. My dvd drive should be on sr0. eurit:~ # ls -il /dev/sr0 65430 brw------- 1 erik disk 11, 0 Dec 28 09:55 /dev/sr0 eurit:~ # ls -il /dev/sr1 38983 brw------- 1 erik disk 11, 1 Sep 9 22:24 /dev/sr1 eurit:~ # ls -lL /dev/dvd /dev/cdrecorder brw------- 1 erik disk 11, 1 Sep 9 22:24 /dev/cdrecorder brw------- 1 erik disk 11, 0 Dec 28 09:55 /dev/dvd eurit:~ # ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/cdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 25 21:25 /dev/cdrecorder -> /dev/sr1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 28 09:57 /dev/dvd -> /dev/sr0 eurit:~ # less /var/log/boot.msg | grep scsi <4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda3 hdd=ide-scsi vga=791 apic <4>ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 <4>scsi: limiting sg entries to 204 <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices -- Med venlig hilsen - Best regards - vy73 de OZ4KK. Erik Jakobsen - eja@urbakken.dk Registered Linux user #114875 - http://counter.li.org SuSE linux 8.1 - VMware 3.2 - WIN98SE.