[CLUG] Identify CD-ROM drive?

[Peter Flynn]

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:
> I'd have my doubts about it being an IDE model. Remember all those
> proprietary interfaces for CDROMs years ago? Did you look through the
> kernel config for that make and model CDROM? 

How does one do that when Linux is not installed?

> I used to have an old 2 speed model which wasn't supported under Windows
> (had to use DOS drivers) and Linux wouldn't see it at all. Linux did
> support it a few months after but I had a shiny new P133 by then!
> Windows never has and never will support that particular piece of
> hardware despite pleadings from the public on their company
> website/bulletin board.

This once worked under something but that something may have been DOS
under Win3.

///Peter