Media reader fails under FC1

[James Drabb]

I have a PCMCIA smart media reader made by Centon electronics.  The card
no longer functions since I upgraded from FC1-T3 to FC1 via apt
yesterday.  When I put in a smart media card into the reader, I get the
following in /var/log/messages

Nov  6 21:14:49 keelie cardmgr[4684]: socket 0: ATA/IDE Fixed Disk
Nov  6 21:14:50 keelie cardmgr[4684]: executing: 'modprobe ide-cs'
Nov  6 21:15:14 keelie kernel: ide_cs: ide_register() at 0x100 & 0x10e,
irq 3 failed
Nov  6 21:15:15 keelie cardmgr[4684]: get dev info on socket 0 failed:
Resource temporarily unavailable

I am normally able to mount the card as /dev/hde1.

I have these three kernels and get the same results:
2.4.20-20.9
2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
2.6.0-0.test9.1.67

When I first insert the smart media card into the reader the mouse locks
up for a few seconds.  If I take the card out and re-insert it, my
laptop locks up completely, no mouse, no keyboard.  I thought it might
have been a kernel issue, however it is happening with the 2.4.20-20.9
kernel from RH9 and the 2.6-test kernels as well.  I have used the
reader on my laptop with Red Hat 9 and FC test-{1,2,3} for a while
without issues.

I thought the reader may have gone bad, however I just popped it into my
other laptop running RH9 with kernel 2.4.19-9 and it worked without
problems.

Any clues where to start looking?

Jim Drabb
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James Drabb
Senior Programmer Analyst
Davenport, FL USA