Rex> Is it possible to use a non-SCSI CD recorder under hamm? As far Rex> as I can tell, everything assumes SCSI. The CD-writing FAQ Rex> mentions something about ATAPI drives circumventing the need for Rex> generic SCSI devices, but cdwrite and cdrecord seem to demand Rex> SCSI (if not generic SCSI). I have a non SCSI CD writer, and it has worked fine for me, although I don't use it heavily. I thought I was going to need to upgrade cdrecord etc to newer versions, but after downloading from slink, I found they were exactly the same versions as in hamm. I had to rebuild my kernel so that it provides IDE SCSI emulation. I used kernel 2.0.35; I think you would have to patch the source if you used 2.0.34. Once you have done that, you need to give an extra boot parameter along the lines of hdc=ide-scsi to get it to spring into life, but after that's done the CD writer looks just like a scsi device, accessed through dev/scd0. You probably want to look at: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html and especially: http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/man/README/README.ATAPI .