>There are still some problems on some laptops.  On my Sony Vaio 505tx,
>plugging a Lexar 8x CF in causes the machine to hang.  The same
>-current kernel works w. the same compact flash card when plugged in a
>slightly newer Viao 505ve.

Are you using a cardbus attachment?  If so, it's because the cardbus
interface on the Sony is broken and won't work for _any_ PCMCIA IDE/ATAPI
device (see long thread on port-i386).

If that's not it ... then I dunno.

--Ken