hello all For some reason, I cannot get my CD writer to mount. Following is a snippet from my boot seuence and my fstab file... everything works but the writer... Please help! Thanks, Eric Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000 Detected 400921828 Hz processor. ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 799.54 BogoMIPS Memory: 127852k/131008k available (1092k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1588k data, 64k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb220 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00) Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: WDC WD205AA, ATA DISK drive hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200a, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: CD-ROM Drive/F5A, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC WD205AA, 19569MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2494/255/63 hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 857.250 MB/sec p5_mmx : 827.532 MB/sec 8regs : 561.213 MB/sec 32regs : 388.239 MB/sec using fastest function: pII_mmx (857.250 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: and here is my fstab file: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.