Thanks a lot, I tried the parameters 
	ide1=0x386,0x180 pci=off
and it did not work. pci=off seems to have broken quite a lot (fb, 
jogdial, ...). Just leaving it away and just having ide1=0x386,0x180 
didn't help the CD-ROM drive either.

I am now compiling the 2.4.19/20/21 kernels to try to figure out, 
where it broke. I have some suspicion that it happened when ide-cs.c 
was moved to legacy from drivers/ide.

BTW, if it's legacy, what replaces it?

Thom


On Friday 10 October 2003 17:09, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:52:50PM +0200, Thom Borton wrote:
>  > Hello everybody
>  >
>  > I have a Sony Vaio PCG-Z600NE with an external PCMCIA 4x CD-ROM
>  > drive, which used to work perfectly until around 2.4.18. With
>  > later kernels I did not succeed to get it running. I tried
>  > extensively with 2.4.22. As far as I remember, 2.4.19-21 did not
>  > work either.
>  >
>  > I have attached the syslogs for 2.4.18, 2.4.22 and 2.6.0-test7.
>  >
>  > Any idea what's wrong? Thanks for the help.
>
> I'm not sure what broke it, but if you boot with "ide1=0x386,0x180
> pci=off" it works again.  Not a perfect solution, but until someone
> does some digging to find out exactly when it broke, we're stuck.
>
> 		Dave

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Thom Borton
Switzerland