Problems Rebuilding a kernel
 

I am running Mandrake 9 and need to tweak the kernel in order to run mkcdrec. I installed the source files during installation and everything worked fine including my cdrw on ide channel 1. My problem is that everytime I rebuild the kernel, everything works fine except the cdrw which I can no longer access (using cdrecord -scanbus to test as this is what mkcdrec uses). Prior to rebuilding the kernel, the driver used is ide-scsi, after the rebuild the driver used is ide-cd.
Is there anyway, when running my original kernel, that I can ensure my .config file actually represents the running system ?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated.

Is your CD-burner a real SCSI device or do you have to emualte it with ide-scsi?

No, its an IDE device but the installation of mandrake configures it with ide-scsi which works fine.

Okay. Did you enable the SCSI-Emulation while compiling the new kernel?

Did you tried a 'modprobe ide-scsi'?

I've done it.

I have added an append line into lilo.conf as follows

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

This now loads the correct driver.

Thanks so much for trying to help and sorry for any inconvenience