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.Dd February 17, 1997
.Dt EISA 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm eisa
.Nd Introduction to EISA bus machine-independent drivers and support
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pp
Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and 
.Tn EISA
bus interface of your system.  Typical
.Tn EISA 
buses are either connected directly
to the main system bus, or via an 
.Tn PCI
to
.Tn EISA
bridge.  See the
.Xr intro 4
documentation for your system for details.
.Sh INTRODUCTION
.Nx
includes a machine-independent
.Tn EISA
bus subsystem and
several machine-independent
.Tn EISA
device drivers.
.Pp
Your system may support additional
.Tn EISA
devices.
Drivers for
.Tn EISA
devices not listed here are machine-dependent.
Consult your system's
.Xr intro 4
for additional information.
.Sh SUPPORTED DEVICES
.Nx
includes machine-independent
.Tn EISA
drivers, sorted by device type
and driver name:
.Pp
.Ss Disk and tape controllers
.Bl -tag -width pcdisplay -offset indent
.It cac
Compaq array controllers.
.It mlx
Mylex DAC960 and DEC SWXCR RAID controllers.
.El
.Ss SCSI interfaces
.Bl -tag -width pcdisplay -offset indent
.It ahb
Adaptec 174x
.Tn SCSI
interfaces.
.It ahc
Adaptec AIC 7770, 274x, and 284x
.Tn SCSI
interfaces.
.It bha
BusLogic BT-74x
.Tn SCSI
interfaces.
.It dpt
DPT SmartCache/SmartRAID III and IV
.Tn SCSI 
interfaces.
.It uha
Ulrastor 24f
.Tn SCSI
interfaces.
.El
.Pp
.Ss Network interfaces
.Bl -tag -width pcdisplay -offset indent
.It ep
3Com 3c579 and 3c592 10Mbit
.Tn Ethernet , 
and 3c597 10/100Mbit 
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
.It fea
Digital DEFEA FDDI interfaces.
.It le
Digital DE422
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
.It tlp
Digital DE425
.Tn Ethernet
interfaces.
.El
.Pp
Note that most or all
.Tn EISA
devices also have
.Tn PCI
or
.Tn ISA
equivalents.
These are listed in 
.Xr pci 4 ,
.Xr isa 4 ,
or
.Xr isapnp 4 ,
respectively.  The manual pages for each individual driver also lists the
supported bus variants.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr intro 4 ,
.Xr ahb 4 ,
.Xr ahc 4 ,
.Xr bha 4 ,
.Xr cac 4 ,
.Xr dpt 4 ,
.Xr ep 4 ,
.Xr fea 4 ,
.Xr le 4 ,
.Xr mlx 4 ,
.Xr tlp 4 ,
.Xr uha 4
.Sh HISTORY
The machine-independent
.Tn EISA
subsystem appeared in
.Nx 1.2 .