hardware revision 1.14
1NetBSD/amiga 1.2 runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with 2some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos. 3 4For 68020 and 68030 systems, a FPU is recommended but not 5required. 68LC040, 68040V and 68LC060 systems don't work correctly at 6the moment. 7 8 9The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 75M of disk 10space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, 11and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of 12RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X 13really isn't usable on a 4M system.) 14 15Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install: 16 partition: advise, with X, needed, with X 17 root (/) 20M 20M 15M 15M 18 user (/usr) 80M 110M 60M 90M 19 swap ----- 2M for every M ram ----- 20 local (/local) up to you 21 22 23As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than 24needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as 25you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large 26and bulky to accommodate all people). 27 28If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition 29larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping. 30 31Supported devices include: 32 A4000/A1200 IDE controller. 33 SCSI host adapters: 34 33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin and GVP series II. 35 53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and 36 Emplant.*) 37 53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus 38 and DraCo builtin. 39 FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II, 40 Blizzard IV, Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I**) 41 Video controllers: 42 ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas. 43 Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais. 44 Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards: 45 GVP Spectrum, 46 Picasso II, II+ and IV, 47 Piccolo and Piccolo SD64. 48 Tseng ET4000 based boards: 49 Domino and Domino16M proto, 50 oMniBus, 51 Merlin. 52 A2410. 53 Cybervision 64. 54 55 Audio I/O: 56 Amiga builtin (currently 8bit-mode only) 57 58 Ethernet controllers: 59 A2065 Ethernet 60 Hydra Ethernet 61 ASDG Ethernet 62 A4066 Ethernet 63 Ariadne Ethernet 64 Quicknet Ethernet 65 ARCnet controllers: 66 A2060 ARCnet 67 Tape drives: 68 Most SCSI tape drives, including 69 Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150. 70 Scanners: 71 SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices, 72 HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***) 73 CD-ROM drives: 74 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives 75 Serial cards: 76 MultiFaceCard II and III 77 A2232 78 Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 79 IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****) 80 Amiga parallel port. 81 Amiga serial port. 82 Amiga mouse. 83 DraCo serial port, including serial mouse. 84 Real-time clocks: 85 A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w), 86 DraCo builtin (r/o). 87 88If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this 89release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no 90driver for: 91 92 Cyberstorm SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI, Blizzard 2060 SCSI, 93 Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI, CyberVision64/3D. 94 95Known problems with some hardware: 96 97 *) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to 98 hang after doing part of the installation without problems. 99 100 **) Fastlane SCSI is reported to show data errors and hangs at 101 least when used with multiple devices on the bus. This might 102 be a problem with any FAS board. 103 104 ***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should 105 work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations. 106 There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if 107 accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other 108 33C93-Adapters, too. 109 110 ****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are 111 write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay 112 unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write 113 anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy 114 drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at 115 boot time. 116