The following HOWTO pretty much covers it all.  If you've already
followed it carefully, perhaps something is wrong with your kernel build
procedure and you should try a stock kernel.

  http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html

-- Rod

Marc Chung wrote:
> 
> at what point does nothing begin to work ..?
> 
> seems that you're running suse.. i'm assuming that it's probably 6.4(?)
> since it says 2.2.13 kernel.. dmesg also says scsi emulation has been
> compiled in (impt!) and that the ide-scsi module has sucessfully been
> loaded.. (also just to verify, are you running stock kernel or a custom
> config?)
> 
> have you tried running cdrecord -scanbus.. can you send me that output too
> 
> thanks.
> 
> --
> Marc Chung [mchung@asu.edu]
> "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately"