>I only asked the question, as I thought there might be a diagnostic tool that >could interrogate the cdrom drive to see if all was ok.
># cdrecord --devices seems to show the drive as available. Cdrecord does not have a --devices option: Calling this commandline will pass "ices" to the dev= option. The correct commandline is: cdrecord -scanbus If you do not get an error mesasage with cdrecord --devices, you are using a fake program but definitely not cdrecord. Cdrecord is here: ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]