I am having a problem with my cdrom drive in Fedora Core2. It is a sony 700W dual layer burner. FC2 installed from it without problem. Now I can't find it. The only place I can see it is in dmesg. Probing IDE interface ide0... hda: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive elevator: using anticipatory as default io scheduler ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Probing IDE interface ide1... Probing IDE interface ide1... hda: ATAPI 63X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide I is located at hda. But nothing can see it at hda. I am trying to get K3b to use it. When I try to configure K3b to use device /dev/hda it says there is no device there. Cdrecord also does not see it, not does lsmod. or /proc/scsi/scsi. I have two SATA drives as storage and the only thing connected to the ATA connector is this cdrom. Any ideas? [root@navdb dev]# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (--) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schilling Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original. Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this version. Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31 Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'. cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'ATA ' 'Maxtor 6Y250M0 ' 'YAR5' Disk 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) * scsibus1: 1,0,0 100) 'ATA ' 'Maxtor 6Y250M0 ' 'YAR5' Disk 1,1,0 101) * 1,2,0 102) * 1,3,0 103) * 1,4,0 104) * 1,5,0 105) * 1,6,0 106) * 1,7,0 107) * [root@navdb dev]# lsmod Module Size Used by snd_mixer_oss 23617 0 snd_via82xx 33569 0 snd_ac97_codec 88161 1 snd_via82xx snd_pcm 115913 2 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 31049 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 13513 2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm gameport 6209 1 snd_via82xx snd_mpu401_uart 10689 1 snd_via82xx snd_rawmidi 29921 1 snd_mpu401_uart snd_seq_device 11601 1 snd_rawmidi snd 66473 8 snd_mixer_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore 12897 1 snd parport_pc 33545 1 lp 15993 0 parport 46029 2 parport_pc,lp autofs4 24521 0 sunrpc 173881 1 tg3 91973 0 floppy 67985 0 sg 46073 0 dm_mod 72705 0 uhci_hcd 38505 0 ehci_hcd 39241 0 radeon 145681 2 md5 5696 1 ipv6 301345 18 ext3 149713 3 jbd 70897 1 ext3 raid1 19777 1 sata_via 9285 4 libata 56521 1 sata_via sd_mod 20417 6 scsi_mod 147065 3 sg,libata,sd_mod [root@navdb dev]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: Maxtor 6Y250M0 Rev: YAR5 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 [root@navdb dev]#