This is release ALPHA 0.3 of the Mitsumi CD-ROM driver for Linux. This driver has been developed on the 800ms (002) drive with an 8-bit interface, but should also work on other Mitsumi CD-ROMS. There are faster Mitsumi drives with 8 and 16 bit interfaces. As I don't have one of these faster drives I have not been able to test the driver on them. I have had reports that the driver works on both the 8 bit and 16 bit interface, and even with the SoundBlaster interface. I believe that the Tandy/Radio Shack CD-ROM is a relabeled Mitsumi and should work with this driver. I would appreciate reports of configurations which do and don't work. (E-mail to martin@bdsi.com) The driver supports reading of data from the CD and also the SUN CDROM audio ioctls. I have used xcdplayer with this driver, but I have noticed that xcdplayer is a bit sloppy about setting some of the parameters to the ioctl calls. I have not checked out any other cd players. This release consists of a driver file, "mcd.c", a set of patches for the kernel, "mcd.kern.diffs", and this readme file. The patches are against a virgin 0.99 pl9 kernel. They may also work for pl8, but not anything earlier. To install: unpack the tar file in "/usr/src/linux" or wherever you keep your kernel source. Apply the diffs in file "mcd.kern.diffs" to your kernel: patch -p0