I have gotten IDE CDROM support to work under MIPS now (tested on Malta both LE and BE with 2.4.3 kernel). It was broken due to a stack overwrite in the generic cdrom.c which for obscure reasons didn't kill an x86 kernel, but does kill a MIPS kernel, see the patch below. The patch has been accepted by the CDROM maintainer, but in case somebody wants to experiment with IDE CDROM now, have fun! /Hartvig /home/hartvige/tmp/linux-2.4.3/drivers/cdrom> diff -u cdrom.c.ORG cdrom.c --- cdrom.c.ORG Tue Aug 14 10:35:04 2001 +++ cdrom.c Tue Aug 14 14:44:14 2001 @@ -2244,8 +2244,13 @@ if ((ret = cdo->generic_packet(cdi, &cgc))) return ret; - cgc.cmd[8] = cgc.buflen = be16_to_cpu(ti->track_information_length) + + cgc.buflen = be16_to_cpu(ti->track_information_length) + sizeof(ti->track_information_length); + + if (cgc.buflen > sizeof(track_information)) + cgc.buflen = sizeof(track_information); + + cgc.cmd[8] = cgc.buflen; return cdo->generic_packet(cdi, &cgc); }