Attached is dmesg with 2.5.1-pre7 + devfs-patch-v203. The first and second manual loading of the ide-cd module give something different. #modprobe ide-cd ; rmmod ide-cd ; modprobe ide-cd hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM drive, 0kB Cache, DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA Why ? Pierre -- ------------------------------------------------ Pierre Rousselet ------------------------------------------------