[Sheflug] Drive detection

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

HI,

I just took a duff hard drive out of one of my linux boxen (which is running
Red Hat 6.2) and decided to replace it with a CD drive. The hard drive was
on the second IDE port as slave. The reason for the CDROM is that the one in
the machine is an old HP writer which doesn't read a lot of cheap CDRs and
so I thought a faster 'normal' drive would be useful. However, I can't get
Linux to recognise the CDROM and don't know where to look to change things.
I assume I will have to alter something in fstab? or somewhere and maybe do
something with MAKEDEV to create a /dev/cdrom1 but, despite a couple of
hours trawling the paperwork I am no nearer understanding ti. Can anyone
offer any words of great wisdom please - preferably in terms a thicky will
understand. Thanks.

Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK

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