Replacing bad CDRom drive

[Jon Moss]

Duane,

Thanks very much for the quick reply.

I believe the CDROM drive is an IDE drive.  I will create a boot floppy with
the drivers just in case.

Thanks again!

Jon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duane Attaway" <dattaway at dattaway.org>
To: "Jon Moss" <jon.moss at cnonline.net>
Cc: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: Replacing bad CDRom drive

> On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Jon Moss wrote:
>
> > I have a new 52x CD-ROM I would like to install in it's place.  I've
> > done this many, many times on WinDoze computers, but never on a Linux
> > workstation.
>
> Is the cdrom on the IDE bus?  USB?  Firewire?
>
> If you can boot from it, it should work.  Otherwise, you need a boot
> floppy with the appropriate drivers for its particular hardware bus.
>
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