>> was not seen by cdrecord so I ran modconf and sure enough ide-cd was >> loaded. I removed it using modconf, yet after a reboot its back. >> Can someone please tell me how to stop this module from loading? >> >maybe check in >/etc/modules ? I'm pretty sure I did, and it wasn't there. ide-generic and the like were there but no ide-cd. I'll double check again tonight. Any other possibilities?