MCD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual MCD(4)
NAME
mcd — Mitsumi CD-ROM driver
SYNOPSIS
device mcd
In /boot/device.hints:
hint.mcd.0.at="isa"
hint.mcd.0.port="0x300"
hint.mcd.0.irq="10"
DEPRECATION NOTICE
The mcd driver will be removed in FreeBSD 12.0.
DESCRIPTION
The mcd driver provides a data and audio interface to the Mitsumi-brand CD-ROM player. The
CD-ROM player must be interfaced to the ISA bus through one of the Mitsumi proprietary con‐
troller boards. The controller boards supported are the LU002S, LU005S, the FX001 and the
quite common FX001D.
The mcd driver responds to disk-specific ioctl() commands, namely the DIOCGPART command.
Other disk-specific ioctl() commands will return an error.
The mcd driver also responds to special CD-ROM ioctl() commands. These commands control the
CD-ROM player's audio features. The commands are:
CDIOCREADSUBCHANNEL get sub-channel information on current status of disc playing
CDIOCREADTOCHEADER get table of contents header
CDIOCREADTOCENTRYS gets all of the table of contents
CDIOCPLAYTRACKS begins audio playing at location specified
CDIOCPLAYBLOCKS fails with error EINVAL
CDIOCPLAYMSF begins audio playing at location specified
CDIOCRESUME resumes playing a previously paused disc
CDIOCPAUSE pauses a playing disc
CDIOCSTART begins playing a disc
CDIOCSTOP stops a previously playing disc
CDIOCEJECT opens the disc tray (there is no support for a corresponding un-
eject command).
CDIOCRESET stops any play and resets the Mitsumi controller board
CDIOCSETDEBUG cause the kernel to print debug messages to the console about the
mcd driver
CDIOCCLRDEBUG cause the kernel to quit printing debug messages about the mcd
driver
The ioctl() commands defined above are the only ones that the mcd driver supports. There
are other CD-ROM related ioctl() commands (such as CDIOCSETVOL and CDIOCSETSTERIO) which are
available and may be supported by future versions of the driver.
FILES
/dev/(r)mcd0a accesses BSD partition on the disc. Normally, there is only one file system
on a CD-ROM disc.
/dev/(r)mcd0c accesses raw device.
NOTES
The character-mode devices for the mcd driver should only be used for accessing the audio
features of the CD-ROM player as the performance on data is abysmal.
The current version of the driver uses neither the DMA or IRQ features of the interface
board, although it has an interrupt handler for any IRQ requests that are generated. Until
the DMA features are supported, the only interrupts that the board generates are those that
are not supported by the driver anyway.
HISTORY
An mcd driver appeared in FreeBSD 1.0.
AUTHORS
The driver was written by Holger Veit (data part) and Brian Moore (audio part). Changes
were provided by Gary Clark II, Andrew A. Chernov, and Jordan K. Hubbard.
BSD July 8, 2017 BSD