Thanks Nathan that set be searching my SuSE 8.1 but it does
not use lilo but grub instead. Had to read up on grub and so came
up with the following:

loran:/home/clay # cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
gfxmenu (hd0,7)/boot/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8

title linux
   kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=3D/dev/hda8  hdc=3Dide-scsi  vga=3D79=
1
   initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd
title floppy
   root (fd0)
   chainloader +1
title failsafe
   kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz.shipped root=3D/dev/hda8 ide=3Dnodma apm=3D=
off=20
acpi=3Doff vga=3Dnormal nosmp maxcpus=3D0 disableapic 3
   initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.shipped
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /dev/cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 2002-12-03 02:35 /dev/cdrecord=
er ->=20
sr0
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 2002-12-03 02:35 /dev/cdrom ->=
 hdd
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /media/cdrecorder
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 2002-12-03 02:35 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          128 2002-09-12 16:14 ..
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /media/cdrom
total 0
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 2002-09-12 16:14 .
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          128 2002-09-12 16:14 ..
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /media
total 1
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          128 2002-09-12 16:14 .

=46rom this hdc=3Dide-scsi is all that is listed. How does hdd get involv=
ed with
scsi?

Clayton
drwxr-xr-x   25 root     root          576 2002-12-13 02:29 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 2002-12-03 02:35 cdrecorder
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 2002-09-12 16:14 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           48 2002-09-12 16:14 floppy
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-rw----    1 root     disk      22,   0 2002-09-09 13:24 /dev/hdc
loran:/home/clay # ls -l /dev/hdd
brw-------    1 clay     disk      22,  64 2002-09-09 13:24 /dev/hdd


On Friday 13 December 2002 07:32 am, Nathan England wrote:
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> Somewhere in your /etc/lilo.conf file it will say
> append=3D"hdx=3Dide-scsi"
>
> If your cd-writer is hdd, then change it to say
> append=3D"hdd=3Dide-scsi"
> If your cd-writer truly is scsi, then remove the line all together..
> Or paste the file here and others will beat up on it as well.
>
> nathan