Hi, I've been using the original cdrecord (cdrtools) for more than 10 years now, however I hadn't burned anything in the last 3 months (or even more). With the current linux kernel image from Arch: % uname -a Linux jvasquez14 3.3.8-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 5 15:20:32 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux I can't get cdrecord to recognize any cd/dvd writer, not the laptop one neither an external USB one... I might be mistaken, but with 3.0 image I believe things worked (can't be sure, as I said I haven't been burning anything for months). When I try to identify the cd/dvd writers: % cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord-ProDVD-ProBD-Clone 3.01a07 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2012 Joerg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open or use SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. I looked through google, but the responses I get are pretty old, some from 2004, talking about early 2.6 kernels... I found one page (an old one as well) that suggests using ide-scsi emulation, but that seems to me old as well: http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/media/cd/cd03-DeviceConfiguration/ar01s0... Besides for quiet a while we don't get hdc or sdc, just plain sr0/sr1 (even the scd0/scd1 was removed), and that seemed to work before if I'm not mistaken... Perhaps now the way is "sr0=scsi"? Any ways, maybe someone knows better, :-) I can try the boot loading thing, but before, I wanted to see if someone has experienced this, and there's a known work around. Thanks, -- Javier.