Things seem to be working at last! Thanks for the command "cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI" I did not find that one. Are the "warnings" significant? Bob Goodwin # cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jïrg Schilling scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using ATA Packet interface. Warning: The related libscg interface code is in pre alpha. Warning: There may be fatal problems. Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'RW/DVD GCC-4320B' '1.01' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list