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 machine-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 interfaces, including the Adaptec 152x, SoundBlaster SCSI interfaces, and a variety of compatibles.

bha BusLogic BT-445 SCSI interfaces.

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 communications cards.

cy  Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial communications 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.

sm  SMC91C9x-based Ethernet interfaces.

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

  Sound cards

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).

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

HISTORY
The machine-independent ISA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.2.