Hello again This is not a message with a problem, but with a solution. Under mandrake 7.1 in my old Pentium II xcdroast detected both, the cdrom and the cdwriter. Under MDK 7.2 just the cdwriter emulating scsi is recognized, so the cdwriter must work hard, reading the origen cd and writing the new cd. Actually this is the situation using MDK installation, but I have read that this could be solved, I will show the steps I have followed in my case. I have a Sony CR-X160E cdwriter and a Hitachi DVD. The scsi emulation has been installed by Mandrake 7.2 just for the cdwriter, but it is also possible to do that for the DVD. Firs of all in my case the cdwriter is the hdc (ide 1, master) and the DVD is the hdd (ide 1, slave). 1) In all the lines of /boot/grub/menu.lst for start linux I had to add "hdd=ide-scsi" 2)From a konsole I typed "mknod scd1 b 11 8" 3) From konsole, I typed "ln -s scd1 cdrom2" 4) Due to a kudzu bug, I could not acces to cdrom2 for normal use; I needed to type also:" "cd /dev &&rm cdrom2 && ln -s scd1 cdrom2" to solve the wrong link created by kudzu. 5) Restart linux It was easy to comprobate if everything were running; I try to read pc-cdroms from both cdrom units; no problems. I load the udf module and my DVD Hitachi could read a DVD disk. And to know if the scsi emulation was also running I use the next commands: cdrecord --scanbus (both cdrom and cdwriter were shown) cat /proc/scsi/scsi (similar results) run xcdroast and go to setup; both drivers appears. Now I can read the cds using my Hitachi DVD and burn they using the Sony CDwriter. ¡great! Se you soon Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain)
