On Fri, 20 May 2005 19:02:38 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote: > The drive is correctly detected but cdrecord appears to be being blocked > from opening up the scsi driver. cdrecord -scanbus did produce mostly > correct results. In earlier versions theiomega 250MB zip disk drive was > also detected along with the cdrom and cd burner drives. Now the zip > drive is no longer detected even though I have it loaded and am accessing > it. Running the script in the cd-writing-howto to create devices gets > some nasty audit messages back even for root user and devices can't be > created and this is even with hal and stuff hal uses turned off. That > same behavior is what gave me the idea to turn hal and associates off in > the first place but hal isn't responsible for this. What burner is it? What is reported by "dmesg" about it? What does cdrecord -scanbus return? What parameters do you pass on to the kernel? How do you run cdrecord? What is in /etc/cdrecord.conf? What error does cdrecord print? -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 loadavg: 1.29 1.26 1.23