diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
index 28a2689c94..6ebcffd7f4 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks/chapter.sgml
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@
 	    <entry><literal>mcd</literal> for Mitsumi CD-ROM,
 	      <literal>scd</literal> for Sony CD-ROM,
 	      <literal>matcd</literal> for Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM
+		<footnote>
+		  <para>The &man.matcd.4; driver has been removed
+		    in FreeBSD&nbsp;4.X branch since October 5th,
+		    2002 and does not exist in FreeBSD&nbsp;5.0 and
+		    later.</para>
+		</footnote>
 	    </entry>
 	  </row>
 	  <row>