[newbie] CR-RW won't work

[Allen Caldwell]

I am having the same problem as many others out there.  I have a CD writer on
IDE 2 as slave and it will not allow me to view it.  I have looked at .dmsg. 
but i don't know how to get that saved to a text message to attach it.
Thanks much
  -- 
Allen Caldwell
"The two hardest things to handle in life,
are failure and success."