On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:42:53PM -0500, Jay Kline wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2001 9:03 pm, you wrote: > > > it may be a SCSI emulation problem. From a console or terminal of your > > > choice, type: > > > > > > ls -l /dev/cdrom2 > > > > > > And report back what you see. > > > > /dev/cdrom2 -> scd0 > > > > just for kicks, I did the same thing for the dvd drive and was rewarded > > with: > > /dev/cdrom -> hdc > > > > Ok, this means more than likely you have SCSI emulation set up, only for your > cd burner, and your DVD drive is plain IDE. > <snip much good advice> Also check to see that the proper scsi modules are loading (I'm assuming that Mandrake has SCSI emulation as a module - never have used Mandrake myself). Before and after trying to mount the burner type: lsmod If things are setup correctly, then the ide-scsi module (and its dependancies) should load when you try to mount the burner. If not then manual load the module (and it dependancies if necessary). modprobe ide-scsi -- Jim Crumley | Free Dmitry Sklyarov! crumley at fields.space.umn.edu | http://freesklyarov.org/ Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |