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27.Dd March 3, 2005
28.Dt MCA 4
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm mca
32.Nd introduction to machine-independent MCA bus support and drivers
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Cd "mca0 at mainbus?"
35.Pp
36.Cd options MCAVERBOSE
37.Pp
38Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and
39.Tn MCA
40bus interface of your system. Typical
41.Tn MCA
42buses are connected directly to the main system bus.
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44.Nx
45includes a machine-independent
46.Tn MCA
47bus subsystem and several machine-independent
48.Tn MCA
49device drivers.
50.Sh HARDWARE
51.Nx
52includes machine-independent
53.Tn MCA
54drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
55.Pp
56.\"
57.Ss SCSI controllers
58.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
59.It aha
60Adaptec AHA-1640
61.Tn SCSI
62interface
63.It esp
64NCR 53C90
65.Tn SCSI
66Adapter
67.El
68.\"
69.Ss Disk and tape controllers
70.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
71.It edc
72IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controller
73.El
74.\"
75.Ss Serial interfaces
76.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
77.It com
78NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial cards.
79.El
80.\"
81.Ss Network interfaces
82.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
83.It tr
84TROPIC based token ring interfaces
85.It ate
86Allied-Telesis 1720 Ethernet interface cards
87.It we
88WD/SMC WD80x3x Ethernet interface cards and clones
89.It le
90SKNET Personal and MC+ Ethernet interface cards
91.It elmc
923Com EtherLink/MC (3c523) Ethernet interface
93.It ep
943Com EtherLink III 3c529 Ethernet interface
95.It tra
96Tiara LANCard/E and Standard MicroSystems 3016/MC Ethernet interface
97.El
98.\"
99.Sh SEE ALSO
100.Xr aha 4 ,
101.Xr ate 4 ,
102.Xr com 4 ,
103.Xr edc 4 ,
104.Xr elmc 4 ,
105.Xr ep 4 ,
106.Xr esp 4 ,
107.Xr le 4 ,
108.Xr ne 4 ,
109.Xr tr 4 ,
110.Xr tra 4 ,
111.Xr we 4
112.\"
113.Sh HISTORY
114The machine-independent
115.Tn MCA
116subsystem appeared in
117.Nx 1.5 .
118