I installed Centos 5.2 on a brand new computer the other day. It has an Asus DVD RW drive in it which I used to boot the netboot disk off of to install the operating system so it found the dvd at that point. Now k3b tells me that it can't find any drives. [nathalie at jeff ~]$ ll /dev/scd0 brw------- 1 nathalie disk 11, 0 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/scd0 [nathalie at jeff ~]$ ll /dev/cdrom* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0 [nathalie at jeff ~]$ ll /dev/dvd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvd -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdrw -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvd-sr0 -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdwriter -> scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0 cdrecord --scanbus tells me this: 1,0,0 100) * 1,1,0 101) '��������' '����������������' '����' Removable vendor specific 7 unknown/no device 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * /var/log/messages tells me this: Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: Vendor: ASUS Model: DRW-20B1ST Rev: 1 .00 Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI S CSI revision: 05 dmesg tells me this: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/12x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 What am I doing wrong here? -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com