So it turns out that while I was unsuccessful in convincing my system that the cdrom is IDE (tried hacking the modules.conf && lilo.conf) I have no difficulty mounting it as scd0 so I am all set. Thanx chix : ) rav3n -- Raven Brooke 5:40pm up 35 days, 9:09, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.03, 0.01