I think I finally got it up by bypassing the disk probe on hdc and 
removing the ide-scsi install in the initrd script.

The system still hangs on the parallel ide ports when accessing the 
devices using ide-scsi. Which is weird because ide-scsi.o wasn't 
insmod'ed during the bootup (as far as I know).

I'll be out of town 'till Monday, but will try to check messages via dialup.

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Christopher R. Thompson
Student of Mechanical Engineering
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
home: http://www.csupomona.edu/~cthompson1/