On Friday 05 November 2004 02:42 pm, Thomas Cameron wrote: Hey Thomas... How goes it? Tweeks here... In the future... you can quickly find your cdwriter device and related links like this: # ls -la /dev/ | grep scd0$ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 23 2002 cdrom -> /dev/scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Sep 23 2002 cdrw -> /dev/scd0 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 11, 0 Apr 11 2002 scd0 And find the device notation for your cdrecord pointer like this: # cdrecord --scanbus Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.5' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST34520N ' '1498' Disk 0,1,0 1) 'SEAGATE ' 'ST39173N ' '5958' Disk 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) 'HP ' 'C1130A ' '3540' Processor 0,6,0 6) 'YAMAHA ' 'CRW6416S ' '1.0d' Removable CD-ROM 0,7,0 7) * (Although this is a real SCSI bus, not an emulated one.. the concept's the same) L8ER man.. Tweeks