If you boot without devfs and without hdX=ide-scsi on command line, you get no IDE CD-ROM. ide-cd being module, with devfs it is autoloaded by devfsd, with ide-scsi it is preloaded in rc.sysinit (which is strictly speaking not neccessary anymore, it was a fix for "greedy" ide-scsi once) but without either of them noting loads it.
Possible fixes are probeall ide-probe-mod ide-cd in modules.conf or just hdX=ide-cd for kernel command line. Both require some support from drakx. Or absolutely ugly, just preload it in rc.sysinit, but then the question is - why bother making it a module at all? -andrey
