Hi Gabriele, although I don't own a cdrom drive with a proprietary interface I think that the key might be to give the "coordinates" of the drive (i.e. io port and interrupt) at boot time.
Unfortunately I lack the knowledge to be more precisely. Perhaps someone else can shed more light on this!?! Regards, Andree -- | Institute of Geophysics phone: +49 40 4123 4389 ANDREE LEIDENFROST | University of Hamburg fax: +49 40 4123 5441 Geophysicist | Bundesstrasse 55 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | D-20146 Hamburg www: www.app-geoph.dkrz.de -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .