[newbie] CD-rom

[Eunice Thompson]

I'm unable to use either of my CD drives ( one is a CD burner) in Mandrake 7.0 they are both Atapi/IDE drives. I' ve read posts and articles about recompiling the kernel  to change the IDE to scsi . that doesn't seem to work because I really don't have any idea what I'm doing.   Anyway my question is can I reinstall Mandrake and when it ask if I have scsi devices , should I check yes? Will this clear up the problem?