NAME
mca —
introduction to machine-independent MCA
bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
mca0 at mainbus?
options MCAVERBOSE
Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and MCA bus interface of your system. Typical MCA buses are connected directly to the main system bus.
DESCRIPTION
NetBSD includes a machine-independent MCA bus subsystem and several machine-independent MCA device drivers.HARDWARE
NetBSD includes machine-independent MCA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
SCSI controllers
- aha
- Adaptec AHA-1640 SCSI interface
- esp
- NCR 53C90 SCSI Adapter
Disk and tape controllers
- edc
- IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controller
Serial interfaces
- com
- NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial cards.
Network interfaces
- tr
- TROPIC based token ring interfaces
- ate
- Allied-Telesis 1720 Ethernet interface cards
- we
- WD/SMC WD80x3x Ethernet interface cards and clones
- le
- SKNET Personal and MC+ Ethernet interface cards
- elmc
- 3Com EtherLink/MC (3c523) Ethernet interface
- ep
- 3Com EtherLink III 3c529 Ethernet interface
- tra
- Tiara LANCard/E and Standard MicroSystems 3016/MC Ethernet interface
SEE ALSO
aha(4), ate(4), com(4), edc(4), elmc(4), ep(4), esp(4), le(4), ne(4), tr(4), tra(4), we(4)
HISTORY
The machine-independent MCA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.5.