Well i've done quite a bit of searching and yet i haven't found anything that relates to my problem. My burner (hdd) has scsi emulation and it burns just fine, however i am not able to use it as an ordinary cd player. It other words i can't play cds from it like i can with my cd-rom (hdc). What steps should i take to set that up?

Furthermore, my cd-rom (hdc) isn't recognized as a SCSI device despite having appended hdc=ide-scsi in lilo.conf so i can't burn from it directly. In fact when i run cdrecord -scanbus only the cdburner shows up.
0,3,0 3) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 9100 ' '1.0c' Removable CD-ROM
I must be missing something , i just don't know what.

I've provided my fstab and lilo.conf below. I appreciate any help and i thank you guys in advance.

[root@diebenkorn dev]# more /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
//paulnar/ENTERTAIN /mnt/ENTERTAIN smbfs user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/Mondrian vfat user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb7 swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@diebenkorn dev]# more /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default=MandyLinux9.0
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
ignore-table
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Mandy9.0
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
vga=788
read-only

Hey PiMoGo,
To play cd's with your scsi emulated burner you need to remove /dev/cdrom and make it a symlink to scd0:
# cd /dev
# rm cdrom
# ln -s scd0 cdrom
Most cdplayers use /dev/cdrom by default, so you need to make them use /dev/scd0.

Thanks for replying! I tried that and it worked but then my cdrom stopped working because the cdrom (hdc) was using the cdrom link under /dev.
This is what i get when i do a grep in /dev for cdrom. BOth cdrom and cdrom0 use the cdroms/cdrom0 which refers to my hdc drive. I tried symlinking the cdrom1 to scd0 but XMMS must not look for cdrom1. Is there a way of having XMMS look for cdrom1 when trying to use my hdd drive mounted in /mnt/cdrom2.

[root@diebenkorn dev]# ls -l|grep cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 10 23:00 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Nov 10 11:34 cdrom0 -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4 Nov 10 23:02 cdrom1 -> scd0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 cdroms/

sorry, i didn't think about that, i only have 1 drive so that never occured to me. :/
hmmmm, not that i know of, man xmms maybe? that sounds like something you might have to change in the source and then recompile.