from a reliable source, if all you're doing is using SCSI emulation to burn CDs with cdrecord, you should drop the idea and just start using the IDE interface directly: # cdrecord dev=/dev/hdX -inq # just to check # cdrecord dev=/dev/hdX whatever.iso the SCSI emulation feature is deprecated, so there's little point in hanging on to it. and it's not at all clear what the point of the "ATAPI:" notation was, but you can forget that as well. unless someone else has reasons to the contrary. rday -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list