I am using Madrake 7.0 and it is working well. I have a SCSI CD-ROM writer and a SCSI ZIP drive. Mandrake used to recognize the CD writer correctly. I was using kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus. I was able to mount CDs on /dev/scd0. With kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk mounting CDs on SCSI was not possible. Then I was installing vmware on kernel vmlinuz-2.2.14-15mdk. After that, even on vmlinuz-2.2.14-1mdklinus I was not able to mount /dev/scd0 again. Also mounting my ZIP is not possible. This it was Linux tells me: **** [claus@tiger /dev]$ mount /mnt/zip mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/zip as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) **** On startup kudzu was telling me that the CD-ROM writer and the ZIP drive was removed, which is (I'm sure) not true. Even the computer recognizes both devices on startup. The mysterious thing is that both devices were recognized correctlly when installing the system and it used to work... PLEASE, GIVE ME SOME HELP... Regards, Claus.