At boot time, my cd-rw is recognized, and when I run xcdroast, the ide/scsi info seems to say that my nec cd-rom and my hp cd-rw are both on host scsi0. Why is this. When I type mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0, my cd-rom is mounted, sr1-12 all mount my cdrom. Where would my cd-writer be? NatePuri Certified Law Student & Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law publisher@ompages.com http://ompages.com