Replacing bad CDRom drive

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I just sent out another colo server yesterday with a 52X ASUS IDE CD-Rom.
Booted off the CD (Red Hat 7.2) and works just fine.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Jon Moss
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 5:51 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Replacing bad CDRom drive

After spending the entire weekend attempting to install three (3) different
versions of Redhat, I finally determined (I know, I'm a little slow when it
comes to hardware) that my CD-ROM drive is dying.  
 
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 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?  

My intention is to get the CD ROM working so I can upgrade to RedHat 9
(which is what I started doing last Friday evening with no luck; I was at
RedHat 8 when I started). 
 
Any suggestions or pointers would be greatly appreciated!
 
Jon Moss 
jon.moss at cnonline.net