On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 09:21:30PM +0000, David Franks wrote: > However I now can't get my laptop to recognise the CDRom drive which is > a PCMCIA CD51/A. > I've googled and tried a variety of "ide2(and ide1)=0x86,0x386" > additions to the linux boot line, but this just causes the boot process > to hang at the "remounting filesystem" stage. > > Has anyone any suggestions as to how to get the CDRom recognised? For the install the magic ide1=0x180,0x386 should work Post install it should automatically be found and attached as a pcmcia device at the end of boot using ide-cs. If it is cardbus it may not be supported. If it is cardbus however let me know the pci ids and we can see what we can do