Configuring a CD writer

[Philip Newborough]

ejbjr wrote:
> I had a hell of a time getting my CD writer to work with Fedora Core 2.
> For anyone else who runs into this problem, the answer was
> 
>    DO NOTHING
> 
> The installation procedure and kernel handle the CD writer automatically
> with no problems or manual configuration.  I tried to manually insert
> the 'hdc=ide-scsi' line that I have always needed to add manually
> in the past, into grub.conf,   Big mistake.  Confuses the hell out of
> everything, and renders the CD writer totally unusable.
> 
> And congradulations to whoever finally got these things to configure
> right automatically.  Its about time.  This was the sort of thing which
> really turned off less knowledgable users who tried to use linux.
> The first time I tried to put a CD writer on a linux system, I had to
> download driver source and build a custom slackware kernel with the
> ide-scsi stuff built in (slackware 5.0 I think)
> 

...it can be real bummer when things just work ;)