Hi, I've put a loop-file (backup.img) on cdrom, with a IDE cdwriter. Now, if I want to mount the image file from the harddisk before burning, I successfully echo $password | mount -t ext2 -p 0 -o loop=/dev/loop2,encryption=AES128 /backup.iso /backup-cd/ But, the cd cannot be mounted from the cdrom drive: echo $password | mount -t ext2 -p 0 -o loop=/dev/loop2,encryption=AES128 /dev/sr1 /backup-cd/ mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2, or too many mounted file systems Of course with linux one has to use ide-scsi for a IDE cdwriter, without which I've never had burnt the cd. Then I reboot the computer *without* the kernel option 'hdc=ide-scsi' . And now echo $password | mount -t ext2 -p 0 -o loop=/dev/loop2,encryption=AES128 /dev/hdc /backup-cd/ works alright. The blocksize of the original loop-file was 1024, don't know if that's of any interest. Any ideas? -- Michael Wenn das Spiel nicht läuft, liegt es oft daran, dass die Spieler nicht laufen. - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/