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NAME
 mca — introduction to machine-independent MCA bus support and drivers
SYNOPSIS
 mca0 at mainbus?
options MCAVERBOSE
Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and MCA bus interface of your system. Typical MCA buses are connected directly to the main system bus.
 
DESCRIPTION
 NetBSD includes a machine-independent MCA bus subsystem and several machine-independent MCA device drivers.
HARDWARE
 NetBSD includes machine-independent MCA drivers, sorted by device type and driver name:
SCSI controllers
- 
aha
- 
Adaptec AHA-1640 SCSI interface
- 
esp
- 
NCR 53C90 SCSI Adapter
 
Disk and tape controllers
- 
edc
- 
IBM ESDI Fixed Disk Controller
 
Serial interfaces
- 
com
- 
NS8250-, NS16450-, and NS16550-based serial cards.
 
Network interfaces
- 
tr
- 
TROPIC based token ring interfaces
- 
ate
- 
Allied-Telesis 1720 Ethernet interface cards
- 
we
- 
WD/SMC WD80x3x Ethernet interface cards and clones
- 
le
- 
SKNET Personal and MC+ Ethernet interface cards
- 
elmc
- 
3Com EtherLink/MC (3c523) Ethernet interface
- 
ep
- 
3Com EtherLink III 3c529 Ethernet interface
- 
tra
- 
Tiara LANCard/E and Standard MicroSystems 3016/MC Ethernet interface
 
 
SEE ALSO
 aha(4), 
ate(4), 
com(4), 
edc(4), 
elmc(4), 
ep(4), 
esp(4), 
le(4), 
ne(4), 
tr(4), 
tra(4), 
we(4) 
HISTORY
 The machine-independent MCA subsystem appeared in NetBSD 1.5.