Drivers are used for interfacing with:
- Printers
- Video adapters
- Network cards
- Sound cards
- Local buses of various sorts - in particular, for bus mastering on modern systems
- Low-bandwidth I/O buses of various sorts (for pointing devices such as mice, keyboards, USB, etc.)
- Computer storage devices such as hard disk, CD-ROM and floppy disk buses (ATA, SATA, SCSI)
- Implementing support for different file systems
- Implementing support for image scanners and digital cameras