diff --git a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/matcd.4 b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/matcd.4 index 0edbba7f25fa..efee74c056ee 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/man4.i386/matcd.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/man4.i386/matcd.4 @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ .\" Please note any documentation updates here including your name .\" and the date. .\" -.Dd April 5th, 1995 +.Dd April 24th, 1995 .Dt MATCD 4 i386 .\"Synchronized to Version 1(16) of matcd.c .Os FreeBSD 2.1 @@ -121,13 +121,13 @@ to support and delete the device entries that you don't want. In this file, you will find an entry like: - controller matcd0 at isa? port ? + controller matcd0 at isa? port ? bio To support two host interfaces, change the file so it reads: - controller matcd0 at isa? port ? + controller matcd0 at isa? port ? bio .br - controller matcd1 at isa? port ? + controller matcd1 at isa? port ? bio .br (If you want to support up to three or four host interfaces, add @@ -152,11 +152,12 @@ locations can cause the boot process to take longer than it could. If you are having these problems, you can solve them by explicitly specifying where the CD-ROM host interfaces are located. For example, by default most SoundBlaster cards have the Matsushita CD-ROM host interface -located at I/O port 0x230. If this is the case for your system, you could +located at I/O port 0x230. (This is 0x10 above the I/O port for the +audio section of the card.) If this is the case for your system, you could change the entry in the kernel configuration file to specify that address like this: - controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230 + controller matcd0 at isa? port 0x230 bio With this change, the .Nm matcd @@ -190,10 +191,10 @@ The Matsushita CR-523-x CD-ROM drive is not usable with The CR-523 can also be identified from the front as it requires a CD-caddy. Drives with IDE interfaces must use an IDE driver. -There is a new TEAC 4X CD-ROM drive on the market that supposedly uses the -Creative/Panasonic interface. It is not known if the TEAC drive is -command-set-compatible with the Matsushita drive so it may not work with -this driver. +The TEAC CD-55 4X CD-ROM drive uses the Creative/Panasonic interface +but is \fInot\fR compatible with the Matsushita CR-56x drives. +The TEAC drive cannot be used with +.Nm matcd. .if t .sp .if n .bp The most common source of host interface adapters for these drives are in @@ -229,6 +230,12 @@ solely based on model number. This is by no means a complete list as Creative Labs and other vendors that produce sound cards with an identical Creative/Panasonic drive interface release new versions of their adapters all the time. + +It is important to understand that some manufacturers have a different +host interface implementation. If you have a board that won't communicate +with the drives under MS-DOS using the genuine Creative Labs drivers, then +.Nm matcd +probably will not work with that host adapter. .br .if t .bp .if n .sp @@ -368,3 +375,4 @@ The .Nm matcd driver appeared in FreeBSD Release 2.1. +504242