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Hi Following on from recent messages regarding cd writing, I have just got mine working, I looked at my /etc/lilo.conf file and found there was already a references to ide-scsi but nothing was working. Solution At root prompt type dmesg and you get the output from the kernel booting messages, Dump this to a text file using dmesg > dmesg then using a text editor (I used advanced editor) view and print this out, now look for messages relating to your cdrw device, (note this print out is useful for other things so it's worth keeping). In mycase I had a reference to hdd - cdrw and scsi0 sr0 sr0 is the device name Place a blank cd in the drive (this really helps ) you can now mount this, under suse 7.3 I used mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrecorder to test I copied my suse 7.3 cd 1. place a cd in your normal cdrom drive and mount it e.g mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom I tried this with a cover cd, but it seemed dodgy, the 7.3 cd seemed to work. My system is as follows Primary master is a 10.2 gb udma 66 harddisk secondary master is my cdrom drive secondary slave is my cd rw drive back to xwindows and use koncd to test, I had to uncheck burn proof, and just selected cd copy. you will need to check the settings, i.e the first box in my case is cdrom and the second is cdrw, anyway the dialogs are pretty self explanatory under setup. Hit go, if everything is ok it should copy, Notes and further reading Suse 7.3 has scsi-ide emulation built in so no need to recompile kernel. Koncd has a number of useful documents the file /usr/share/doc/packages/cdrecord README-ATAPI - this tells you how to recompile your kernel, by saving the current configuration and loading into your make xconfig (or whatever) script. it also suggests that you should have your writer as master, however mine is not and it still seems to work, All this works as root, I think that the solution to getting it to work under other users, is to add read, write permissions to /dev/sr0, or something, or perhaps the directory /dev/cdrecord, not sure, however it works. I think it needs the same permissions as in my resolv.conf solution. However do I need to do this for just /dev/sr0 or /media/cdrecorder or both? Hope all this helps. Paul -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.