To know if you CD-ROM is emulated as scsi, you may run the following command 
(as root): cdrecord -scanbus.
  

On January 30, 2004 11:35 am, Viking Skull wrote:
> Hey everyone! Just recently signed up! I've been using Mandrake for maybe a
> week now, but I'm having a major problem. Whenever I try to access the
> CD-ROM drive it just freezes the desktop.. I cant play music CD's and i
> cant do anything with data CD's either. The CD-ROM drive is a HP one and is
> recognised by Linux.. it just seems to crash it whenever I access it. It
> also crashes when right-clicking on it. The weird thing is, is that
> somewhere Mandrake told me it was a SCSI drive, when in fact it's an IDE
> drive. Can anyone help me!?
>
> Thanks,
> Viking
>
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