I have great but inbarrassing news. It looks as though I accidentally turned off /dev/sg support when building the kernel. I may have edited the Kermit script I used to cary on the dialog that builds the kernel and then thrown away the edit. Anyway, I was building kernels with no generic SCSI support module. It started working perfectly as soon as I put the generic support back in. Now we know what terrible things happen when one has no generic support. It basically tries to work, but there is still nodriver that cdrecord can use. I thank all of you for your help. "L. C. Robinson" writes: >A few hints: >On our systems here, we have: >ls -l /dev/cdrom >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Feb 28 2001 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0 >for our CD-RWs _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list