On my machine I have SATA0: HD SATA1: HD these two drives are set as RAID1 SATA2: HD extra SATA3: DVD SATA4: external USB disk Snip from dmesg shows the ATAPI device being detected. ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x9e0 ctl 0xbe0 bmdma 0xe400 irq 10 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x960 ctl 0xb60 bmdma 0xe408 irq 10 ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: ATAPI: PIONEER BD-ROM BDC-202, 1.01, max UDMA/66 ata3.00: configured for UDMA/66 ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: ATA-7: ST3500630AS, 3.AAC, max UDMA/133 ata4.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32) ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 sda is HD sdb is HD again RAID1 sdc is the HD extra sdd should be hte ATAPI DVD but it ends up being the external USB nothing is at sde Where might my DVD be? Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos