Vic, My friend...sounds like you need to unplug for a little bit. Are you sure that your hardware, namely the CDRW is ok and not broken? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Vic wrote: > ****I'm getting ()*&(*^&% off.!! > > > cdrecord dev=0,0 speed=4 Mandrake72-inst.iso > Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling > scsidev: '0,0' > scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 > cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. > cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. > [root@kittypuss Tempbo]# > > > I'm sick and tired of seeing this t)(&*^(*^&% why won't this pice of > poop do as I command?? > > Its like there is no way in (*(&*^ to connect the stupid worthless > piece of metal to the stupid ()*()*&^ing filesystem > > I hate mysteries, and I hate this thing. > > this is not a challenge it is an impossibility!! > > Same f@#$@#$% ing trash over and over again. > >