Hi,

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 18:30:50 -0500, David Topper wrote:
> 1) They don't seem to get loaded properly so I have to load them
> manually before burning
> 2) They don't unload when I need to do things like mount a cdrom w/
> filesystem or play and audio cd. So I have to unload them and reload
> the regular ide-cdrom modules.

What distribution are you using?

Why not just use the ide-scsi driver all the time, then access the device
at /dev/scd0? As for allowing non-root users to mount data CDs, play
audio CDs, or burn CDs, that varies slightly per distribution. Ditto for
making sure ide-scsi gets loaded when needed.