Hi Bob, i saw your reply on the following link and i did follow it. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/12/msg01942.html
sh-2.05b# dmesg | grep ATAPI hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152G, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8525B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices sh-2.05b# lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [KM400] Chipset Host Bridge 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge 0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 80) 0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 0000:00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8378 [S3 UniChrome] Integrated Video (rev 01) sh-2.05b# kernel version has been 2.4.22 #cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored. ide-cd ignore=hdc ide-generic ide-probe-mod ide-scsi i have added to /etc/modules.conf alias scd0 srmod alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi options ide-cd ignore=hdd You stated that "Note that in 2.4.22 ide-probe became ide-detect. " it wasnt clear to me .. my /etc/fstab reads as follows cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 /dev/hda2 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda5 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrw /cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 but when i do cdrecord -scanbus i get the follwong # cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an inofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version. cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. cdrecord: cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup . Could you pls help me out in getting it to work or if anyone could help me out Thanks and regards, Vijaya -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]