Replacing bad CDRom drive

[Jon Moss]

I believe the new one is IDE (at least the cable that came with it looks
like your standard IDE cable).  I'll give it a shot (possibly in the
morning) and see what happens.

Thanks very much for such a quick response!  I really appreciate it.

Jon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Elling" <ellings at kcnet.com>
To: "Jon Moss" <jon.moss at cnonline.net>; <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Replacing bad CDRom drive

> On Monday 09 June 2003 17:50, Jon Moss wrote:
> > Is Linux (Redhat 7.3 currently installed) Plug-N-Play?  I've reviewed
the
> > HowTos at the Linux Documentation Project (the CDROM one is nearly two
> > years old) and it seems to indicate that I will have to re-install or
> > re-compile the kernel.  Is this true?
>
> If your old CDROM drive was IDE/ATA and your new drive is IDE/ATA, it
should
> be as simple as slap it in and go.  If your new drive is not IDE/ATA or
the
> same interface as the old, you will need to make sure the kernel has
> support for the particular interface the drive uses and re-compile/install
> the kernel.
>
>