Re: RH9, PCMCIA cdrom install or rescue VAIO-R505TLK, PCGA-CD51

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Matthew Miller wrote:

>On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 01:27:53PM -0700, Oisin Feeley wrote:
>> I'd appreciate it if you could confirm your CD model
>> so that I can discount it from the problem.  
>
>Ahh, it is in fact a PCGA-DVD51/A. (I borrowed it from a friend. Had no idea
>that it was a DVD drive until I just now looked.)

Hi Matthew, 
another request for info: could you do an "lspci -vv" on the laptop and 
see if the CardBus controller is a Ricoh 475 or 476?  Apparently there 
may be a patch in Red Hat 9 to exclude these controllers. 
thanks again,
Oisin