I upgraded from Red Hat 7.2 to 7.3 and lost my SCSI emulation, so now cdrecord -scanbus can't find any SCSI devices and I can't use my burner. fstab has not changed from 7.2 /etc/rc.d/rc.local has /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi /sbin/modprobe sg I've looked, and there is no ide-scsi in sbin In /etc/modules.conf I've got append="hdc=ide-scsi" I've done chmod 666 /dev/scd0 chmod 666 /dev/scd1 ( This is just a home machine so don't have to worry about security) The burner is the secondary master in the BIOS so hdc looks OK. Does this mean I'll have to do a dreaded "kernel compilation"? I've installed the 2.4.18-3 kernel source in /usr/src/ just in case, but I'm not excited about compiling kernels. Is there anything else I can do to get back my scsi emulation without compiling the kernel ?