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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!symiserver2.symantec.com!usenet From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: what is MCD0? Date: 13 Jul 1996 09:54:22 GMT Organization: Symantec Corporation Lines: 14 Message-ID: <4s7roe$m3a@symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <4s6pkq$g05@zeus.crosslink.net> Reply-To: tedm%toybox@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.6.34.1 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2 In <4s6pkq$g05@zeus.crosslink.net>, moverman@crosslink.net (Marc Overman) writes: >When my FreeBSD machine boots up something called MCD0 comes up at IRQ >10 and 300h address. Any idea what this is? It is interfering with >my network card (ix0) which also wants 300h. Yup, this is a known problem with the Intel cards mentioned in the readme files. You must manually disable the MC (mitsumi driver) if you have a ExPress card in there, as the driver probe will make the card respond, so the driver thinks it's some kind of weird CD. Instructions on how to do this are in the same readme files which discuss the problem in the first place. Ted