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31 .Dd September 27, 2002
36 .Nd Introduction to EISA bus machine-independent drivers and support
38 .Cd options EISAVERBOSE
40 Machine-dependent; depends on the bus topology and
42 bus interface of your system. Typical
44 buses are either connected directly
45 to the main system bus, or via an
51 documentation for your system for details.
54 includes a machine-independent
56 bus subsystem and several machine-independent
60 Your system may support additional
65 devices not listed here are machine-dependent.
68 for additional information.
71 includes machine-independent
73 drivers, sorted by device type
75 .Ss Disk and tape controllers
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78 Compaq array controllers.
80 Mylex DAC960 and DEC SWXCR RAID controllers.
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89 Adaptec AIC 7770, 274x, and 284x
97 DPT SmartCache/SmartRAID III and IV
105 .Ss Network interfaces
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108 3Com 3c579 and 3c592 10Mbit
114 Digital DEFEA FDDI interfaces.
125 Note that most or all
137 respectively. The manual pages for each individual driver also lists the
138 supported bus variants.
153 The machine-independent
155 subsystem appeared in