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ISA(4)                    NetBSD Programmer's Manual                    ISA(4)


NAME

     isa - introduction to machine-independent ISA bus support and drivers


SYNOPSIS

     Attachments are machine-dependent and depend on the bus topology and ISA
     bus interface of your system.  See intro(4) for your system for details.


INTRODUCTION

     NetBSD includes a machine-independent ISA bus subsystem and several ma-
     chine-independent ISA device drivers.

     Your system may support additional ISA devices.  Drivers for ISA device
     not listed here are machine-dependent.  Consult your system's intro(4)
     for additional information.


SUPPORTED DEVICES

     NetBSD includes machine-independent ISA drivers, sorted by device type
     and driver name:

   SCSI controllers

           aha      Adaptec AHA-154x family (154xA, 154xB, 154xC, and 154xCF)
                    and the BusLogic BT54x SCSI interfaces.

           aic      Adaptec AIC-6260 and Adaptec AIC-6360 based SCSI inter-
                    faces, including the Adaptec 152x, SoundBlaster SCSI in-
                    terfaces, and a variety of compatibles.

           bha      BusLogic BT-445 SCSI interfaces.

           dpt      DPT SmartCache/SmartRAID III and IV SCSI interfaces.

           nca      NCR-5380/NCR-53C400

           sea      Seagate/Future Domain SCSI cards.  ST01/02, Future Domain
                    TMC-885, and Future Domain TMC-950.

           uha      Ultrastor 14f SCSI interfaces.

           wds      WD-7000 family of bus-mastering SCSI interfaces.

   Disk and tape controllers

           mcd      Mitsumi CD-ROM drives.

           wdc      Standard Western Digital type hard drive controllers: MFM,
                    RLL, ESDI, and IDE/ATAPI.

           wt       Wangtek and compatible QIC-02 and QIC-36 tape drives.

   Serial and parallel interfaces

           ast      Multi-port serial communications card first made by AST.

           boca     Boca BB100[48] and BB2016 multiplexing serial communica-
                    tions cards.

           cy       Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial com-
                    munications cards.

           lpt      Standard ISA parallel port interface.

           rtfps    IBM RT four-port serial cards.

   Network interfaces

           ate      Allied Telesis AT1700 series and RE2000 series.

           ec       3Com Etherlink II (3c503) Ethernet interfaces.

           eg       3Com Etherlink Plus (3c505) Ethernet interfaces.

           el       3Com Etherlink (3c501) Ethernet interfaces.

           ep       3Com Etherlink III (3c509) Ethernet interfaces.

           fmv      Fujitsu FMV-181 and FMV-182 interfaces.

           ie       Ethernet interfaces based on Intel 82586 Ethernet chip,
                    including AT&T Starlan-10, AT&T EN100, AT&T Starlan Fibre,
                    and 3Com 3c507.

           iy       Intel i82595-based Ethernet interfaces, including the
                    EtherExpress Pro/10.

           lc       DEC EtherWORKS III Ethernet interfaces (DE203, DE204, and
                    DE205).

           le       Ethernet interfaces based on the AMD LANCE chip, including
                    BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, Digital DEPCA, and PCnet-ISA.

           ne       Novel NE2000 and compatible Ethernet interfaces.

           ntwoc    SDL Communications Riscom/N2 synchronous serial inter-
                    faces.

           sm       SMC91C9x-based Ethernet interfaces.

           tr       TROPIC based token ring interfaces.

           we       Western Digital/SMC 80x3, SMC Elite Ultra, and SMC EtherEZ
                    Ethernet interfaces.

   Sound cards

           aria     Sierra's Aria based sound cards.

           cms      Creative Music System.

           ess      ESS Technology AudioDrive 1788-, 1888-, 1887-, and
                    888-based sound cards.

           gus      Gravis Ultrasound sound cards.

           pas      ProAudio Spectrum sound cards.

           pss      Personal Sound System-compatible sound cards, including
                    Cardinal Digital SoundPro 16 and Orchid Soundwave 32.

           sb       Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro sound
                    cards.

           wss      Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the
                    AD1848 and compatible chips.

     Note that some ISA devices also have newer ISA Plug-and-Play variants.
     These are listed in isapnp(4).  Some i386 platforms use pnpbios(4) to at-
     tach ISA devices.


SEE ALSO

     aha(4), aic(4), aria(4), ast(4), bha(4), cms(4), cy(4), dpt(4), ec(4),
     el(4), ep(4), ess(4), gus(4), ie(4), isapnp(4), iy(4), lc(4), le(4),
     lpt(4), mcd(4), nca(4), ne(4), pas(4), pnpbios(4), pss(4), rtfps(4),
     sb(4), sea(4), sm(4), uha(4), wd(4), wdc(4), wds(4), we(4), wss(4), wt(4)


HISTORY

     The machine-independent ISA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.2.

NetBSD 1.5                     February 17, 1997                             3