I just reformatted my system and compiled from stage 1 (Gentoo), I have everything I need installed, and I compiled my own kernel 2.6.9 (I ahve been compiling my own kernel 5 years now)

I have never had problems with k3b before but now I am.

I enter k3bsetup as root and it only shows one of my drives, and it is a reader.
I tried manually pointing to the devices (both /dev/srX and /dev/scsi/hostX/peth/to/cd)
it says there is no device at that location.

gtoaster detects the drives fine.

here is my cdrecord -scanbus output:

Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-500M' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW DVR-105 ' '1.30' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
scsibus2:
2,0,0 200) 'ARTEC ' 'WRA-WA48 ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM
2,1,0 201) *
2,2,0 202) *
2,3,0 203) *
2,4,0 204) *
2,5,0 205) *
2,6,0 206) *
2,7,0 207) *

the second 2 drives listed are cd burners.

K3B reccomends you stick with 2.6.7 for now. They say that it still doesn't quite work with 2.6.9 (2.6.8+ screwed up CD Burning)

I saw a patch [2.6.8] a couple of days back specifically for this.. problem,Sorry I cant seem to find the Url . There should be one already out for 2.6.9 too. . try googling a bit.. You'll find it..

ok.. well I installed cdrecord-prodvd and now it sees my drives (even though only one was a dvd-r, the other was a cd-r)