bob writes: > At 12:03 PM 8/10/2005, dan moylan wrote: >>though dmesg shows the drive on sr0, there is no /dev/sr0 > Shooting in the dark, from some old notes: > service autofs stop # Kill the evil desktop automount daemon > rmmod ide-cd # Remove conflicting cd driver > rmmod udf # Remove problematic driver loaded by desktop > insmod sr_mod # Install scsi recorder driver tried this. system responds: "insmod: can't read 'sr_mod' no such file or directory" i noticed, however, that, sr_mod.ko exists in /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/scsi/ is there something i need to build? and how? or what? tia, 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