do you have the scsi generic ddriver loaded? modprobe sg
ls -l /dev/sg0 crw------- 1 root root 21, 0 Jul 21 1998 /dev/sg0 or similar (maybe you want different permissions. See You Steve -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wibble.net/~sjh/ Look Up In The Sky Is it a bird? No Is it a plane? No Is it a small blue banana? YES