adding CDRwriter to debian sarge

[scanER]

at the moment i have a DVD writer installed in my system ..and i want to swap for my CDwriter drive ..Coz its faster ....will it be ok to connect it and debian will automaticaly load the drivers from its FS....or will it not???? i have a sound card also mercury 5.1 channel ..cheap and nasty <----like a few women i know....can i just put it in or will it screw my OS up i know how funny MS can be when u dabble with PCI .

[iwanabeguru]

just connct your cd writer and debian will recognize it.

For example if you connect the cd rw to the secondary slave ide connector
the device file what assigned to it is the /dev/hdd
if you havent the device node you need to make it.
cd /dev
cd writer on secondari slave
mknod -m 660 cdrw b 22 64
and the device file will be /dev/cdrw

And please forgive me my english is very wrong

[scanER]

thanx for the info iwanabeguru....i already got it working plus sound card .....thanx for your help n e way much appreciated,