Would people who had problems with PCMCIA IDE CD-RW try current kernel? I specifically mean the problem that ide-scsi did not recognize new CD-RW that was plugged in after ide-scsi has been loaded.
Here is summary of changes in current ide-scsi in Mandrake: - enable reinit; it should now correctly recognize new devices that appeared after module has been loaded - ignore IDE deices that do not explicitly request ide-scsi driver. It is to avoid ide-scsi accidentally claiming all "free" devices - every IDE device always gets the same unique target number (based on IDE controller/device number) so even number of ide-scsi'd devices change, every device retains the same address. It does not help if you use old style names, but using devfs you can use /dev/sg/cXtYuZ or /dev/sr/... or /dev/scsi/ to unambiguously refer to your device. - /dev/ide/.../generic nodes are created and devsd is aware about them and creates compatibility link /dev/hdX -> /dev/ide/.../generic. This gives you something to use hdparm on :-) - as a side effect it should be possible to switch driver to/from ide-scsi by simple echo -n ide-scsi > /proc/ide/hdX/driver. It also correctly (de-)registers corresponding SCSI devices, at least in my limited testing :-) -andrej
