There's no record of scsi in lower or upper-case in /var/adm/messages. One thing I can do is to just put linux and hdd=ide-scsi on boot line and wait and see if the sound plays that's set in rc.local. cdrecord -scanbus can't find a scsi driver and right now I don't know what to use to wake this burner up. What shows in dmesg follows: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1468-0x146f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: Maxtor 92048D8, ATA DISK drive hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-5000, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8320B, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 92048D8, 19531MB w/1024kB Cache, CHS=2489/255/63, UDMA hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 hdd: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>