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From: moverman@crosslink.net (Marc Overman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: what is MCD0?
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:18:38 GMT
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:

>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. ;-)

What is the best source of information on building a custom kernel?