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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: what is MCD0?
Date: 13 Jul 1996 11:44:38 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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moverman@crosslink.net (Marc Overman) wrote:
> 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.
RTFM mcd(4)
MCD(4) FreeBSD Programmer's Manual MCD(4)
NAME
mcd - Mitsumi CD-ROM driver
SYNOPSIS
device mcd0 at isa? port 0x300 bio irq 10 vector mcdintr
RTFM boot(8)
-abcCdhrsv
Boot flags:
...
-c run UserConfig to modify hardware pa-
rameters for the loaded kernel
You have been advised to disable all the devices you don't need
anyway. (Even better: build a custom kernel.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)