when i first started to use cdrecord, with the internal cdr-rw drive in my ibm 600e laptop, under rh9.0, it didn't work, so i was advised to insert the command hdd=ide-scsi on the kernal boot line of grub. i did this and all was fine. cdrecord worked. dmesg gave the following: ... Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ... Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr0: Hmm, seems the drive doesn't support multisession CD's on the same machine, under FC2, trying to use cdrecord, i tried the same ploy, but cdrecord does not find the drive. dmesg gives: ... Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi rhgb quiet ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ... (no Attached scsi CD-ROM . . . ) cdrecord gives: -------------- scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 cdrecord: No such device or address. Cannot open '/dev/pg0'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to . Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA any suggestions, magic bullets, etc? dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave #2 brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-232-2360 (tel) 810-454-1823 (fax) jdm@moylan.info www.moylan.info