Hi Cheryl, Pat is using the stock RedHat kernel with Speakup added. She already has all the modules that she needs. In fact, her burner is also IDE and is using the IDE SCSI emulation. The problem is that both drives are on the same controller. I think that's likely to cause problems with on-the-fly copying. Since Pat's determined to do this rather than copying the data to the HDD first, does anyone know the syntax for setting hdc and hdd to use ide-scsi. Bill in Denver