Hi folks, After the glow of the Installfest today, I took home some new information. Previously I was unable to get my CD/RW drive working, with the "cdrecord" program. I have a RedHat 7.0 system. The advice I was given was to recompile the kernel _without_ IDE-CD-ROM support, but with SCSI emulation, and then I should be able to use the "cdrecord" program, as Bob T. was using at the Installfest today. I recompiled my kernel without IDE CDROM support and with SCSI emulation support. Since nothing was mentioned about whether to leave _in_ "regular" SCSI CDROM support, I left that part as a module. The bottom line is, I was able to use the cdrecord program (although I still find it somewhat cryptic), but was unable to mount my CDROM drives as usual. I tried both the standard "mount" command which relies on /etc/fstab (e.q. "mount /dev/cdrom", and also explicitly doing a mount command, e.g. "mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom". Each time, I got the same message back, to the effect that I had either a "bad superblock" on the device (I tried several CD's, that wasn't it....) or too many mounted drives (...that definetly wasn't it either, only two partitions and "/proc" were mounted). I tried inserting, by turns, the ide and scsi cdrom modules, with modprobe, to see if I could mount either my "normal" CD-ROM (DVD) drive, or my CD/RW drive. Those modules are, specifically "ide-cd.o" and "sr_mod.o", which both seem to rely on the "cdrom.o" module. In all cases, I got the same result, even after several kernel compile re-tries. "cdrecord" now recognizes the CD/RW and the DVD drive; they are noticed in the boot-time message sequence (dmesg), and I can use the program. But I can not mount the CD-ROM drives at all! The situation I am in now is, I have to load my "new" kernel in order to record a disk, and my old kernel; in order to mount a disk. What am I doing wrong? Does anyone have a suggestion? This is the first time I have posted to this discussion group. I am not new to Linux, but I am unacquainted with the ins and outs of "cdrecord" and CD/RW drives in general. Especially the quasi-SCSI interface cdrecord demands. My system is a Compaq Presario with lots of RAM running the new kernel 2.4.2 (from ftp.kernel.org) and an Athlon chip with a high processor speed...about 1.1GHz, in theory. I am running RedHat 7.0. Any answers would be appreciated. I also wonder what the standard procedure is for using "cdrecord" Is it necessary to create a CD-ROM disk image first using "mkisofs" program, or am I missing something? Thanks for your help...and for your patience in reading through this. Sincerely, Bryan Zimmer baz at baz-tech.com