New CD-RW

Dear list, could someone point me to what I need to do to get my SuSE 8.2 to recognise my new CD-RW? I have had an old zip drive on my office machine replaced with a CD-RW. On start-up, SuSE recognises new hardware, but only creates an entry for a second CD-ROM drive. Also, the replaced zip drive is still in the /etc/fstab file. I think I probably need to edit fstab, and probably do other things, in order for the new CD-RW to become fully functional in SuSE. However, I haven't found anything relevant in the SuSE help files or the support database. Thank you, Dennis