Need isapnp early in boot. How?

[<kaynjay@igalaxy.net>]

Hello-

My home system has a CD attached to a SB Vibra 16 board, with 2 other drives off the
single channel IDE controller.  If I don't first boot into DOS or OS/2, the
CD is incorrectly recognized (hdg instead of hdc) and is inaccessable. 

Isapnp apparently comes up too late in the boot to help.  I currently get
messages about resource conflicts when it tries to initialize (though things
work since the card's been warmed booted from another OS).  I've checked the
settings and they match what I use in DOS and OS/2.

How early can I get isapnp to initialize the card?  Should I put the script
in rc.boot, or elsewhere? 

Under OS/2 I need a special little (3rd party) driver to specifically initialize the IDE
port ... does anyone know whether this is also a problem under Linux which isapnp
doesnt address on a cold boot?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Kenward Vaughan