> There are 4 ide devices ide1 has 2 hard drives and ide2 has cdrw and cdrom > > Tried cdrecord --dev=/dev/hdd -immed blah.iso and still hangs exactly the same. > Woooooa! Slow down! You don't want to corrupt your hard disk! Some of those 4 ide devices are your partitions on your hard disk that have FC2 and whatever else installed on your system. Don't play around with them and especially when you have root privileges! Now your problem is most likely a ATAPI problem. I used to get the same response from cdrecord when I had SCSI emulation on for my ATAPI CD burner. So one thing you should do is turn it off and try to use cdrecord. Here are the steps: First go to /boot/grub/grub.conf and back it up just in case: cd /boot/grub cp grub.conf grub.conf.BAK Then edit grub.conf with your favorite editor and see if there is a command: hdx=ide-scsi on the kernel command line that you are using. Notice that "x" is the letter for the ide device that your CD is using so it can be anything. If there is this command delete ONLY that and leave the rest intact. Save and exit from your editor. Now go to your /etc/modprobe.conf file and see if there is an option: options ide-cd ignore=hdx where "x" again pertains to your ide letter. Comment that part out by putting a hash "#" in front of it. Now you are ready to go. If your kernel was compiled with native ATAPI support then by rebooting your system to the same kernel your device should be ready to use. If you give: cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI cdrecord should respond with your ATAPI device numbers identified. Good luck!
