diff -rauN linux-2.4.19-rc1/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c linux-2.4.19-rc1-idefix/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c
--- linux-2.4.19-rc1/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c	Fri Jul 12 17:58:14 2002
+++ linux-2.4.19-rc1-idefix/drivers/ide/ide-cd.c	Fri Jul 19 17:43:58 2002
@@ -3057,6 +3057,8 @@
 	struct cdrom_info *info;
 	int failed = 0;
 
+	byte stat;
+
 	MOD_INC_USE_COUNT;
 	while ((drive = ide_scan_devices (ide_cdrom, ide_cdrom_driver.name, NULL, failed++)) != NULL) {
 		/* skip drives that we were told to ignore */
@@ -3070,6 +3072,17 @@
 			printk("ide-cd: passing drive %s to ide-scsi emulation.\n", drive->name);
 			continue;
 		}
+		
+		/* ide-cd probe workaround by Kristian Peters */
+		stat = GET_STAT();
+		ide_dump_status (drive, "drive status", stat);
+
+		if (stat & BUSY_STAT) {
+			printk("ide-cd: Probing for drive %s failed. Device is busy !\n", drive->name);
+			continue;	/* 208 = 0xd0 (BUSY), 192 = 0xc0 (BUSY) */
+		}
+		/* end */
+
 		info = (struct cdrom_info *) kmalloc (sizeof (struct cdrom_info), GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (info == NULL) {
 			printk ("%s: Can't allocate a cdrom structure\n", drive->name);