you don't need special drivers in your os to use it. Instead of having /dev/cdrw you'll most likely want to sym link /dev/hdc (/dec/scd0, or whatever your drive shows up as) to /dec/cdrw ( ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrw ) as adding/removing devices may change the location of your drive sometime down the road. fstab would be the same as your cdrom: /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 I really don't know anything about IDE burners. As of a couple weeks ago the my last IDE drive failed and my machine is now 100% scsi. For the sake of cheap storage I'm sending the IDE disks in (hey they're still under waranty) but most likely they'll only have ogg and mp3 on them. :) -- Andy Zbikowski, Sys Admin | (WEB) http://www.ltiflex.com LTI Flexible Products, Inc. | (PH) 763-428-9119 (EX) 132 21801 Industrial Blvd | (FX) 763-428-9126 Rogers, MN 55374 | (PCS) 612-306-6055 --------------D8094B3D4964ADFC95C0428F Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="andyzb.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Andy Zbikowski Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="andyzb.vcf" begin:vcard n:Zbikowski;Andy tel;cell:612-306-6055 tel;home:952-591-0977 tel;work:763-428-9119 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.ltiflex.com org:LTI Flexible Products;Information Services adr:;;21801 Industrial Blvd;Rogers;MN;55374;USA version:2.1 email;internet:andyzb at ltiflex.com title:Computer Systems Administrator x-mozilla-cpt:;0 fn:Andy Zbikowski end:vcard --------------D8094B3D4964ADFC95C0428F--