I have a Windoze machine and a Linux machine running SuSE 8.1 Pro. I am looking to upgrading my SuSE system to 9.3 (I have all of the versions in between in the boxed sets). Both of these machines were originally Wndoze machines from Dell. The Linux box has a CD RW and the Windoze machine has a Samsung 332B CD RW DVD reader device. I want to swap them -- put the DVD reader device on the Linux machine and the CD reader on the Windoze machine. That way I can upgrade my SuSE with the DVDs. Do I have to worry about drivers, or will SuSE have some generic driver that will be able to read from this DVD device? Thanks, Greg Wallace
On Saturday 30 July 2005 11:23 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
Do I have to worry about drivers, or will SuSE have some generic driver that will be able to read from this DVD device?
If both are IDE they should work without a problem. If SCSI, I dont have a clue! ra
On Saturday, July 30, 2005 @ 11:06 PM O Saturday 30 July 2005 @ 11:06 PM, Richard Atcheson wrote:
On Saturday 30 July 2005 11:23 pm, Greg Wallace wrote:
Do I have to worry about drivers, or will SuSE have some generic driver that will be able to read from this DVD device?
If both are IDE they should work without a problem. If SCSI, I dont have a
clue! ra
Thanks for the info. I assume it's IDE/ATA. I don't know much about these CD and DVD devices (hey, they've always worked!). I can't imagine that it's SCSI. I didn't even know they made DVD SCSI's, but apparently so, based on a quick search of the web. Greg Wallace
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 20:23 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
I have a Windoze machine and a Linux machine running SuSE 8.1 Pro. I am looking to upgrading my SuSE system to 9.3 (I have all of the versions in between in the boxed sets). Both of these machines were originally Wndoze machines from Dell. The Linux box has a CD RW and the Windoze machine has a Samsung 332B CD RW DVD reader device. I want to swap them -- put the DVD reader device on the Linux machine and the CD reader on the Windoze machine. That way I can upgrade my SuSE with the DVDs. Do I have to worry about drivers, or will SuSE have some generic driver that will be able to read from this DVD device?
Thanks, Greg Wallace
It should work. The Samsung site is rather light on tech details but since it is an IDE DVD drive, it will most likely work fine. To be sure, however, I reccomend you test it with a CD-bootable distro like KNOPPIX or Kanotix (I like Kanotix the most). Since you have a second CD drive, you can boot from that and use k3b to try to burn a CD/DVD on the Samsung drive. Once you've done this - you'll know it works and the SuSe install will be okay. Rich -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 8BF9 990D 8853 5CD8 AB44 8F48 7BC8 5D4B 1B25 7AEC found at pgp.mit.edu Remember, all Windows-based machines are fault tolerant. They run Windows don't they?!
On Saturday, 2005-07-30 @ 20:23 -0400, Rich Goodwin wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 20:23 -0800, Greg Wallace wrote:
I have a Windoze machine and a Linux machine running SuSE 8.1 Pro. I am looking to upgrading my SuSE system to 9.3 (I have all of the versions in between in the boxed sets). Both of these machines were originally Wndoze machines from Dell. The Linux box has a CD RW and the Windoze machine has a Samsung 332B CD RW DVD reader device. I want to swap them -- put the DVD reader device on the Linux machine and the CD reader on the Windoze machine. That way I can upgrade my SuSE with the DVDs. Do I have to worry about drivers, or will SuSE have some generic driver that will be able to read from this DVD device?
Thanks, Greg Wallace
It should work. The Samsung site is rather light on tech details but since it is an IDE DVD drive, it will most likely work fine.
To be sure, however, I reccomend you test it with a CD-bootable distro like KNOPPIX or Kanotix (I like Kanotix the most). Since you have a second CD drive, you can boot from that and use k3b to try to burn a CD/DVD on the Samsung drive. Once you've done this - you'll know it works and the SuSe install will be okay.
Rich
Thanks. I think I'll give it a try. Worst case (hopefully) is I just have to switch them back. The CD-DVD device is as old as the Linux box (circa 8.1, but slightly older), which I would think would raise the odds on an older version of Linux like mine (though that may not even matter). Thanks, Greg Wallace
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