Interesting, I've been having some progress over here. When I included st suddenly cdrecord worked to the point that -scanbus produced a device table for me. Fortunately, /dev/sda4 shows up as my parallel 250 zip drive. Unfortunately, that's all that's in the device table. I'm going to check the pasture directory and see if that's where slackware 8.0 burried sr.o.gz. Fortunately I probably can buy a micro-solutions backpack parallel cd burner if this stuff from lg electronics doesn't start working by tuesday. The gscd.o driver doesn't work on any default interface addresses. I wouldn't mind this except the box had slackware 3.5 on the box and ultimately if this cannot work this is just one of those "marketing tool" things where truth in advertising and labeling get trashed. No federal enforcement this is what comes back. -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>