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30.\"	$NetBSD: sii.4,v 1.2 1997/10/13 11:23:58 lukem Exp $
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32.Dd August 6, 1996
33.Dt SII 4 pmax
34.Os NetBSD 1.2
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm sii
37.Nd
38SII scsi adaptor
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Cd "sii0 at mainbus"
41.Sh DESCRIPTION
42THe
43.Nm
44driver provides support for the
45.Tn DEC
46SII scsi adaptor ASIC used in
47the DECstation 2100, 3100, and 5100,  and in the VAXstation 3100.
48.Pp
49The
50.Nm
51is a medium-performance implementation of the SCSI-I common set
52supporting synchronous and asychronous SCSI devices.  The SII cabling
53is unusual:  the bulkhead connector is very similar to a standard
54submicro wide SCSI-II connector, but has the other gender.
55The
56.Nm
57chip only supports DMA to or from a fixed window in memory.
58The driver use this area as a bounce buffer,  copying data to and
59from the  DMA region.
60.Sh SEE ALSO
61.Xr intro 4 ,
62.Xr rz 4 ,
63.Xr tz 4 ,
64.Xr sd 4 ,
65.Xr st 4 ,
66.Xr cd 4 ,
67.Xr ch 4 .
68.Sh HISTORY
69The
70.Nm
71driver
72first appeared in
73.Bx 4.4 .
74.Sh BUGS
75The
76.Nm
77driver only supports the
78.Nm oldscsibus
79higher-level layer, and the
80.Nm rz
81and
82.Nm tz
83devices, which first appeared in
84.Bx 4.4 /pmax.
85It should be  re-written to support the
86.Nm scsibus
87machine-independent higher-level SCSI layer and the
88.Nm sd ,
89.Nm st ,
90and
91.Nm cd
92drivers. This is
93.Ud .
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