Thanks for the pointer. The problem was the cdrom* links to hd* not to scd*. The only thing else was that the perms on the scd* needed to allow world read so anybody could play cds. I didn't see that on the web site, though I didn't look to closely. Rich. Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Will prodemod ide-scsi (or is that modprobe?) just effect the > > second ( CD-RW ) or will it try to control the original as well? > > If it will control the original then should I remove a driver and > > if so which one? > > Joseph S Gardner > > Yes, it's 'modprobe' > > http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/pages/ > > Have a look there Joe. It's for 7.0, but maybe you'll find > something of help. FWIW, I've had a cd-rw (S) and cdrom (M) on the > second IDE in versions 6.0 thru 7.2beta3. No problems at all with > 7.1, both were correctly setup. 7.2b3 added a 'mem=256M' in front > of the 'hdd=ide-scsi' on the 'append' line. My cd-rw (plextor 8432) > wouldn't work till I removed the 'mem=' entry leaving only the > 'hdd=' part. 'mem=' isn't needed by my motherboard/bios anyway. > -- > Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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