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Thanks, you were exactly right, so for the record, this is how to do it: ** Idiot's guide to getting your CD-Rom drive recognised by your CD writing software (by an idiot, for idiots) ** 1. Find out which device your CD-Rom drive is. You can find this, for example, in the Mandrake Control Panel "hardware" section (HardDrake), or by playing about with the "eject" command until the right drive ejects! 2. Become root. Edit /etc/lilo.conf with your favourite text editor. To newbies like me, that might mean typing "su" into the command line, followed by "kwrite /etc/lilo.conf" or "joe /etc/lilo.conf" 3. Find the section that corresponds to the "image" you normally boot (read the "label=" bits) 4. Under this section, append to the "append=" line, "<your CD-Rom>=ide-scsi". Eg. for me it says "hdc=ide-scsi". 5. Reboot (erghh, how Windozy, at least you don't have to do it very often!) 6. Viola! Typing "cdrecord -scanbus" should show up your CD-Rom drive as well as your CD burner, and consequentially it should appear in any other CD-burning front-ends that you use. I hope that comes in useful to somebody sometime, at least it's up on the 'Net now for future reference, so they don't have to pester the Unix Geeks with trivial questions like this ;-) Is this the kind of thing that might go in the Wiki? There doesn't seem to be a lot in there at the mo, is it a kind of "anything goes" type affair or does it have a clear purpose in life? Cheers, Jon On Friday 28 Mar 2003 3:34 pm, Alex Charrett wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jonathan Melhuish wrote: > > All I want to do is copy from my CD-Rom drive to my new CD burner, > > possibly doing a little error checking in between if possible. But can I > > do it? > > As you seem to be talking about audio cds, you probably want to look at > cdrdao. > > Having looked at the website it looks pretty straight forward, but you > need to have both cd-rom and cd-rw using ide-scsi. (see something like > append "hdc=ide-scsi" in /etc/lilo.conf) > > http://cdrdao.sourceforge.net/example.html > > Alex. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.