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.Dd February 17, 1997 .Dt ISA 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm isa .Nd introduction to machine-independent ISA bus support and drivers .Sh SYNOPSIS
p Attachments are machine-dependent and depend on the bus topology and .Tn ISA bus interface of your system. See .Xr intro 4 for your system for details. .Sh INTRODUCTION .Nx includes a machine-independent .Tn ISA bus subsystem and several machine-independent .Tn ISA device drivers.
p Your system may support additional .Tn ISA devices. Drivers for .Tn ISA device not listed here are machine-dependent. Consult your system's .Xr intro 4 for additional information. .Sh SUPPORTED DEVICES .Nx includes machine-independent .Tn ISA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
p .Ss SCSI controllers l -tag -width speaker -offset indent t aha Adaptec AHA-154x family (154xA, 154xB, 154xC, and 154xCF) and the BusLogic BT54x .Tn SCSI interfaces. t aic Adaptec AIC-6260 and Adaptec AIC-6360 based .Tn SCSI interfaces, including the Adaptec 152x, SoundBlaster .Tn SCSI interfaces, and a variety of compatibles. t bha BusLogic BT-445 .Tn SCSI interfaces. t sea Seagate/Future Domain .Tn SCSI cards. ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885, and Future Domain TMC-950. t uha Ultrastor 14f .Tn SCSI interfaces. t wds WD-7000 family of bus-mastering .Tn SCSI interfaces. .El .Ss Disk and tape controllers l -tag -width speaker -offset indent t mcd Mitsumi CD-ROM drives. t wdc Standard Western Digital type hard drive controllers: MFM, RLL, ESDI, and IDE/ATAPI. t wt Wangtek and compatible QIC-02 and QIC-36 tape drives. .El
p .Ss Serial and parallel interfaces l -tag -width speaker -offset indent t ast Multi-port serial communications card first made by AST. t boca Boca BB100[48] and BB2016 multiplexing serial communications cards. t cy Cyclades Cyclom-4Y, -8Y, and -16Y asynchronous serial communications cards. t lpt Standard .Tn ISA parallel port interface. t rtfps IBM RT four-port serial cards. .El
p
.Ss Network interfaces
l -tag -width speaker -offset indent t ate Allied Telesis AT1700 series and RE2000 series.
t ec 3Com Etherlink II (3c503)
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
t eg 3Com Etherlink Plus (3c505)
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
t el 3Com Etherlink (3c501)
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
t ep 3Com Etherlink III (3c509)
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
t fmv Fujitsu FMV-181 and FMV-182 interfaces.
.It hp
Broken driver for HP -relabelled
.Tn Ethernet
cards.
t ie Ethernet interfaces based on Intel 82586
.Tn Ethernet
chip,
including AT&T Starlan-10, AT&T EN100, AT&T Starlan Fibre, and 3Com 3c507.
t iy Intel i82595-based
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces, including the EtherExpress Pro/10.
t lc DEC EtherWORKS III
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces (DE203, DE204, and DE205).
t le Ethernet interfaces based on the AMD LANCE chip,
including BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, Digital DEPCA, and PCnet-ISA.
t ne Novel NE2000 and compatible
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
t sm SMC91C9x-based
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
t we Western Digital/SMC 80x3, SMC Elite Ultra, and SMC EtherEZ
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
.El
.Ss Sound cards
l -tag -width speaker -offset indent t ess ESS Technology AudioDrive 1788-, 1888-, 1887-, and 888-based sound cards.
t gus Gravis Ultrasound sound cards.
t pas ProAudio Spectrum sound cards.
t pss Personal Sound System-compatible sound cards, including
Cardinal Digital SoundPro 16 and Orchid Soundwave 32.
t sb Soundblaster, Soundblaster 16, and Soundblaster Pro sound cards.
t wss Windows Sound System-compatible sound cards based on the AD1848 and
compatible chips.
.El
p Note that some .Tn ISA devices also have newer .Tn ISA Plug-and-Play variants. These are listed in .Xr isapnp 4 . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr aha 4 , .Xr aic 4 , .Xr aria 4 , .Xr ast 4 , .Xr bha 4 , .Xr cy 4 , .Xr gus 4 , .Xr ec 4 , .Xr el 4 , .Xr ep 4 , .Xr ess 4 , .Xr ie 4 , .Xr isapnp 4 , .Xr iy 4 , .Xr lc 4 , .Xr le 4 , .Xr lpt 4 , .Xr mcd 4 , .Xr ne 4 , .Xr pas 4 , .Xr pss 4 , .Xr rtfps 4 , .Xr sb 4 , .Xr sea 4 , .Xr sm 4 , .Xr uha 4 , .Xr wd 4 , .Xr wds 4 , .Xr we 4 , .Xr wss 4 , .Xr wt 4 .Sh HISTORY The machine-independent .Tn ISA subsystem appeared in .Nx 1.2 .
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