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34.Dd March 3, 2005
35.Dt MCA 4
36.Os
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm mca
39.Nd introduction to machine-independent MCA bus support and drivers
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "mca0 at mainbus?"
42.Pp
43.Cd options MCAVERBOSE
44.Pp
45Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and
46.Tn MCA
47bus interface of your system. Typical
48.Tn MCA
49buses are connected directly to the main system bus.
50.Sh DESCRIPTION
51.Nx
52includes a machine-independent
53.Tn MCA
54bus subsystem and several machine-independent
55.Tn MCA
56device drivers.
57.Sh HARDWARE
58.Nx
59includes machine-independent
60.Tn MCA
61drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
62.Pp
63.\"
64.Ss SCSI controllers
65.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
66.It aha
67Adaptec AHA-1640
68.Tn SCSI
69interface
70.It esp
71NCR 53C90
72.Tn SCSI
73Adapter
74.El
75.\"
76.Ss Disk and tape controllers
77.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
78.It edc
79IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controller
80.El
81.\"
82.Ss Serial interfaces
83.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
84.It com
85NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial cards.
86.El
87.\"
88.Ss Network interfaces
89.Bl -tag -width speaker -offset indent
90.It tr
91TROPIC based token ring interfaces
92.It ate
93Allied-Telesis 1720 Ethernet interface cards
94.It we
95WD/SMC WD80x3x Ethernet interface cards and clones
96.It le
97SKNET Personal and MC+ Ethernet interface cards
98.It elmc
993Com EtherLink/MC (3c523) Ethernet interface
100.It ep
1013Com EtherLink III 3c529 Ethernet interface
102.It tra
103Tiara LANCard/E and Standard MicroSystems 3016/MC Ethernet interface
104.El
105.\"
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr aha 4 ,
108.Xr ate 4 ,
109.Xr com 4 ,
110.Xr edc 4 ,
111.Xr elmc 4 ,
112.Xr ep 4 ,
113.Xr esp 4 ,
114.Xr le 4 ,
115.Xr ne 4 ,
116.Xr tr 4 ,
117.Xr tra 4 ,
118.Xr we 4
119.\"
120.Sh HISTORY
121The machine-independent
122.Tn MCA
123subsystem appeared in
124.Nx 1.5 .
125