Re: Red Hat 4.2 Install Question

["menion?" <menion mindless com>]

Have you checked out where your CDrom plugs into your system?  Is it on
the normal IDE chain?  Is it attacehd to a custom card?  Is is attached
to a propriatary controller card?  I beleive that the FX001x cards are
propriatary....,,,  I have of Linux rejecting a cdrom before, but that
was like a panasonic, or a something.  A 24 Speed.  I can get 24 speed
Acer cdroms for between 70 & 75 a piece [us dollars].  I don't know if
that the _best_ price, but I would bet that if I can do that, then you
can find a damn fast one for around that price delivered.




js

Preston McMurry wrote:
> 
> I never was able to get it to recognize my CD drive (nor was I able
> to get DOS to recognize the drive. Maybe the drive is bad? Who knows,
> they aren't all that expensive anyway. So I'll get a new one and see
> if that works. My question to the list is this:
> 
> "What CD drive is the *least* likely to have RedHat 4.2 compatibility
> problems?"
> 
> (My reading of the HOWTO says it would probably be an ATAPI drive?)
> 
> I'm tired of screwing with the drive. I want to plop one in and have
> it be recognized so I can get down to the business of screwing with
> Linux itself. ;-)
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> Preston