On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 17:57 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > 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 > Hi, Sorry for delay - I've been away for a few days. I'm feeling my way a bit here. Here's the output from lspci. Is that what you need? If you need more, could you tell me how to generate it for you. Thanks David 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03) 00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02) 00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01) 00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01) 00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03) 00:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sony Corporation CXD3222 i.LINK Controller (rev 02) 00:09.0 Multimedia audio controller: Yamaha Corporation YMF-744B [DS-1S Audio Controller] (rev 02) 00:0a.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k Data/Fax Modem (Mob WorldW SmartDAA) (rev 01) 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08) 00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x (rev 64)