> in my original email i attempted to do this and posted the output of > dmesg | grep media, and grep hdd
Even if you had used grep hd, the result might have been misleading. Your cdrecord output I took as the drive in question being present. This means that the kernel must have been able to communicate with the drive at least somewhat. cat /proc/ide/hd?/model shows which drive is connected to which cable btw, and still works once the dmesg ring buffer has filled and overwritten the oldest lines. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
