NAME
esp —
Emulex ESP, NCR 53C9x and QLogic FAS
families based SCSI controllers
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:
device scbus
device espAlternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_esp_load="YES"
DEPRECATION NOTICE
Theesp driver is not present in
FreeBSD 13.0.
DESCRIPTION
The esp driver provides support for the
AMD Am53C974, the Emulex ESP100, ESP100A, ESP200 and ESP406, the NCR 53C90,
53C94 and 53C96 as well as the QLogic FAS100A, FAS216, FAS366 and FAS408
SCSI controller chips found in a wide variety of systems and peripheral
boards.
HARDWARE
Controllers supported by the esp driver
include:
- Tekram DC390
- Tekram DC390T
SEE ALSO
cd(4), ch(4), da(4), intro(4), pci(4), sa(4), scsi(4), camcontrol(8)
HISTORY
The esp driver first appeared in
NetBSD 1.3. The first
FreeBSD version to include it was
FreeBSD 5.3.
AUTHORS
The esp driver was ported to
FreeBSD by Scott Long
<scottl@FreeBSD.org>
and later on considerably improved by Marius Strobl
<marius@FreeBSD.org>.
BUGS
The esp driver should read the EEPROM
settings of Tekram controllers.