Before you flame someone you should read their message. My cd burner works just fine,( in an FC2 kind of way.). Its my DVD Writer that is not recognized as a writer only as a reader. Thanks Brad Earl Dallas Tx. Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb GATOOR@xxxxxxxxxx um 16:05: > My DVD writer which I have been useing under redhat > 9.0 and fedora core 1, > is not recognized under core 2. What can I do to fix > this? > It is an Emprex > cdrecord -scanbus shows it as follows: > scsidev 'ATA' > devicename 'ATA' > scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 > > scsibus1: > > 1,1,0 101) 'DVDRW ' 'IDE1004' '0043' > removeable CD-ROM > I cannot record to it it gives me a ro error. > Sony CD wrighter on 1,0,0 works fine.. > Thanks Brad Earl You should have read the FC2 release notes! And it was already explained several times here on the list, that you have to use cdrecord -dev=/dev/hdX and not the ide-scsi emulation. Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.427 Serendipity 16:01:37 up 11:44, 8 users, 0.29, 0.12, 0.04