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30.\"	$NetBSD: sii.4,v 1.8 2001/07/08 17:22:54 wiz Exp $
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32.Dd August 6, 1996
33.Dt SII 4 pmax
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm sii
37.Nd
38SII SCSI adaptor
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Cd "sii0 at mainbus0"
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 command set
52supporting synchronous and asynchronous SCSI devices.
53.Pp
54The SII cabling is unusual: the bulkhead connector is very similar
55to a standard submicro wide SCSI-II connector, but has the other gender.
56.Pp
57The
58.Nm
59chip only supports DMA to or from a fixed window in memory.
60The driver uses this "window" area as a bounce buffer, copying data
61to and from the DMA region.
62.Sh SEE ALSO
63.Xr intro 4 ,
64.Xr rz 4 ,
65.Xr tz 4 ,
66.Xr sd 4 ,
67.Xr st 4 ,
68.Xr cd 4 ,
69.Xr ch 4
70.Sh HISTORY
71The
72.Nm
73driver first appeared in
74.Bx 4.4 .
75.Sh BUGS
76The
77.Nm
78driver only supports the
79.Nm oldscsibus
80higher-level layer, and the
81.Nm rz
82and
83.Nm tz
84devices, which first appeared in
85.Bx 4.4 /pmax .
86It should be re-written to support the
87.Nm scsibus
88machine-independent higher-level SCSI layer and the
89.Nm sd ,
90.Nm st ,
91and
92.Nm cd
93drivers.
94This is
95.Ud .
96