A minor update since the last post.  Recent changes:

* updated to 2.6.11-rc4, posted patch (see attached).

* turned on ATAPI by default.  If you got an S/ATAPI DVD burner for 
Christmas, you'll like this.

WARNING DANGER WARNING:  Some drivers such as sata_promise and ahci have 
not yet been updated to support ATAPI.

More details on patch/BK/changes attached.