On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 15:57 +0200, Joachim Selke wrote: > This is not the case here. My drives are identified by /dev/sd*. > /dev/hd* does not work. Exactly!! That's my problem, where /dev/sd* worked, something changed the drives to /dev/hd* and it goes nuts. It tries /dev/hd*, then errors and then tries /dev/sd* and works. All of my multimedia programs now hunt for /dev/hd* trying to find the DvD. Where can I reset this? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================