[plug] /dev/cdrecorder error

[sol]

Recently I installed an LG cdrw as the secondary slave on my Athlon 800's IDE 
drive (cdrom secondary master). I got the information from the SuSE site on 
how to run SCSI emulation and followed these instructions carefully ending 
with a reboot to commit the modprobe ide-scsi stuff. The boot messages 
indicated that the SCSI emulation went fine and all devices were detected. 
BUT: a) I can't get KonCD to burn

Error, exit status: 2
cdrecord: No such file or directory. No read access for ".       


b) when I try to mount  the cdrecorder I get the following message;

Error
Could not mount device
The reported error was:
/dev/cdrecorder: Input/output error
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and none was specified.

I'm totally green to this cd burning stuff and don't know where to turn for 
the solution to this problem. Any tips appreciated.

Sol