thanks joan, i have been trying to get grip to work using cdparanoia as i have read that this is better then cdda2wav but i shall try using cdda2wav and see how it goes, if anyone does however have an insight to 'generic scsi device' i would be interested to learn bascule Joan Tur wrote: > > Hallo! I'm using cdda2wav instead of cdparanoia to rip CDs; i just had to > give execution rights for everybody for that program and grip runs fine! > Hope that helps... 8-) >