At 12:03 PM 8/10/2005, dan moylan wrote: >though dmesg shows the drive on sr0, there is no /dev/sr0 Shooting in the dark, from some old notes: service autofs stop # Kill the evil desktop automount daemon rmmod ide-cd # Remove conflicting cd driver rmmod udf # Remove problematic driver loaded by desktop insmod sr_mod # Install scsi recorder driver HTH. YMMV.