... could it be the master/slave jumper on one of the drives (maybe set to 'cable select') ? Maybe permutate the master/slave of the two drives. What about changing parameters with 'hdparm' (I doubt it will help, but try anyway) I'm really running out of ideas.. sorry .. Solo

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Tom, when I pass ide-scsi, the burner burns, but doesn't mount CDs normally. When I don't pass it, it mounts CDs normally, but doesn't burn. Solo, I know it isn't master/slave because both drives work. All I want to do is get the burner to work as a normal CD-ROM OR a burner. As for hdparm, I would think everything is right if it burns. Also, I couln't find any options that looked helpful. Most recently, I tried /dev/MAKEDEV'ing some new device files, like sg's and re-making scd's, but none of the new dev files worked for the CDRW.

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try "mount -v /dev/hdd /mountpoint" for verbose output and let's hope for usefull messages. Solo

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still just: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

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take a look at: cat /proc/ide/hdd/settings I think you are going in a wrong direction when trying to use /dev/sr0 You can "mknod" sr0 to be actually an ide device but that would miss the point. The /dev/hd? isn't much more than the 0x8? parameter as far as I remember. Solo

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[root@slacker hdd]$cat settings name value min max mode ---- ----- --- --- ---- bios_cyl 0 0 1023 rw bios_head 0 0 255 rw bios_sect 0 0 63 rw current_speed 34 0 69 rw ide_scsi 1 0 1 rw init_speed 12 0 69 rw io_32bit 1 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw log 0 0 1 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw number 3 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw transform 1 0 3 rw unmaskirq 1 0 1 rw using_dma 1 0 1 rw [root@slacker hdd]$dmesg | grep ide1: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA [root@slacker hdd]$ The pio thing isn't the problem because it says the same thing for my DVD-ROM, and that works. Also, both drives use DMA, anyway.

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Since I'm out of ideas: My guess is this is a simple problem like: No CD in drive, wrong user in audio-group or disk-group, wrong access rights for the /dev/hdd or for the mountpoint. I will discuss this with my friends and will post new ideas if they come up. Good luck for now, Solo

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I know it's not no CD. I just tried it again, just to be sure. Also, it can't be permissions because I have to be root to mount CDs, and if root can't access it, there's something else wrong.

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