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Device Drivers

1. Drivers - Interfaces:-
--- Printers
--- Video Adapters
--- Network cards
--- Sound cards
--- Local buses
--- Low bandwidth I/O
--- Storage devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, floppy disk) - (ATA, SATA, SCSI)
--- Image scanners
--- Digital cameras

2. Virtual Device Drivers:-
--- Virtual network adapter
--- Virtual disk device (iSCSI) - [eg. Daemon Tools]
--- VsD, VLM, VDD

3. Open Drivers
--- Printers - CUPS
--- RAID - Compaq Command Interface for SCSI-3 Support (CCISS)
--- Scanner - SANE
--- Video - Vidix, Direct Rendering Infrastructure
--- Open Device drivers:-
== fas - Fast/wide SCSI controller
== hme - Fast Ethernet
== isp - Differential SCSI controllers and Sunswift card
== glm (Gigabaud Link Module) - UltraSCSI controllers
== scsi (Small Computer Serial Interface) devices
== sf - social Fiber Channel Arbitrated Loop (FCAL)
== soc - SPARC Storage Array (SSA) controllers and the Control device == social - Serial Optical Controllers for FCAL

4. APIs:-
--- Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM)
--- Windows Driver Foundation (WDF)
--- Windows Driver Model (WDM)
--- Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS)
--- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
--- Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE)
--- I/O Kit
--- Installable File System (IFS)
--- Open Data-link Interface (ODI)
--- Uniform Driver Interface (UDI)
--- Dynax Driver Framework (dxd)

5. Identifiers:-
--- PCI bus