Thanks for the information on SCSI emulation in Red Hat. It's good to know I don't have to do anything about that. I've read the CD-writter Howto and the man cdrecord, but I can't figure out what to enter for the 'dev' argument for cdrecord. The example shows dev=0,6,0 But that's for a SCSI device and mine is ATAPI. My burner is /dev/hdc in fstab In the BIOS its a secondary master. In windoze its E for the cdrom part and F for the burner I'm trying to copy some old tape songs into a CD. The program rec and the Gnome mixer are excellent for getting the songs into .wav files. All I need to do now is get cdrecord going. cdrecord -v speed=4 -pad -audio dev=?,?,? Any ideas about dev ? Oh, you'll notice I'm using my new, id. For some reason, somebody didn't like 'author'