I know that Submount works nicely with SCSI-emulated devices, like IDE CD Burners in the 2.4 kernel, but it doesn't work too nicely with my non-emulated CD-ROM (IDE) whose mountpoint is /dev/hdc

Would the best idea be just to pass an arguement in LILO to have both hard drives be using SCSI-Emulation? Or could this possibly cause problems (Minor, like me having to reconfigure cd-burning software, etc, or major problems)?

Edit:
I should probably explain what's weird about my current setup for me:

When I have /dev/hdc mounted with submount, it keeps on having the disk (if one is the tray) popping up and disappearing from the desktop on Gnome (Havn't tried it on KDE yet). Also, when I try to have it eject, it won't until I get my timing right and unmount the drive using the command prompt. Now, I don't have any trouble with my cd-burner, which is hdd (emulated to be /dev/scd0 right now), and I'm using the 2.4.27 kernel, which makes me think it has more to do with the IDE interface than anything else.

Anybody?

Oh well, I think I'm giving up on submount. It's nice for when you have to do things like install a game that spans over multiple cd's, but it really slows down burning and it just doesn't work well with my DVD-ROM drive. CD Burning speeds are at about .94x when the burner is capable of going at 16x, which is a major pain. Oh well, just about everything is a learning experience. Just hope that somebody else stubles upon this thread, as I can't delete it....

Try using the utopia project instead of submount. Start using udev, install hotplug, hal and gnome-volume-manager.

Mate, what exactly would using udev, hotplug, hal, and gvm do in replacing submount?