On Tuesday 29 October 2002 23:04, you wrote: > but my hdc is scsi emulated... i'm trying to turn dma on despite the > fact that I don't have an ide /dev entry that i can hdparm My cdrw is on secondary slave (hdd) under scsi emulation. I can still hdparm /dev/hdd if i run cdrecord -scanbus first, otherwise nasty thigns happen.