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hardware revision 1.15 
      1 NetBSD/amiga _VER runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
      2 some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.
      3 
      4 For 68020 and 68030 systems, a FPU is recommended but not required. 
      5 68LC040, 68040V and 68LC060 systems don't work correctly at the moment.
      6 
      7 The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 75M of disk
      8 space.  To install the entire system requires much more disk space,
      9 and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended.  (4M of
     10 RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X
     11 really isn't usable on a 4M system.)
     12 
     13 Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
     14 	partition:	advise,	with X,	needed,	with X
     15 	root (/)	20M	20M	15M	15M
     16 	user (/usr)	80M	110M	60M 	90M
     17 	swap		----- 2M for every M ram -----
     18 	local (/usr/local)	up to you
     19 
     20 
     21 As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
     22 needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
     23 you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
     24 and bulky to accommodate all people).
     25 
     26 If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition
     27 larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping.
     28 
     29 Supported devices include:
     30 	A4000/A1200 IDE controller.
     31 	SCSI host adapters:
     32 		33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin and GVP series II.
     33 		53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and 
     34 		    Emplant.*)
     35 		53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus 
     36 		    and DraCo builtin.
     37 		FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II,
     38 		    Blizzard IV, Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I**)
     39 	Video controllers:
     40 		ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
     41 		Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
     42 		Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards:
     43 		    GVP Spectrum,
     44 		    Picasso II, II+ and IV,
     45 		    Piccolo and Piccolo SD64.
     46 		Tseng ET4000 based boards:
     47 		    Domino and Domino16M proto,
     48 		    oMniBus,
     49 		    Merlin.
     50 		A2410.
     51 		Cybervision 64.
     52 
     53 	Audio I/O:
     54 		Amiga builtin (currently 8bit-mode only)
     55 		
     56 	Ethernet controllers:
     57 		A2065 Ethernet
     58 		Hydra Ethernet
     59 		ASDG Ethernet
     60 		A4066 Ethernet
     61 		Ariadne Ethernet
     62 		Quicknet Ethernet
     63 	ARCnet controllers:
     64 		A2060 ARCnet
     65 	Tape drives:
     66 		Most SCSI tape drives, including
     67 			Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
     68 	Scanners:
     69 		SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
     70 		HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
     71 	CD-ROM drives:
     72 		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
     73 	Serial cards:
     74 		MultiFaceCard II and III
     75 		A2232
     76 	Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 
     77 		IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
     78 	Amiga parallel port.
     79 	Amiga serial port.
     80 	Amiga mouse.
     81 	DraCo serial port, including serial mouse.
     82 	DraCo parallel printer port.
     83 	Real-time clocks:
     84 		A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w),
     85 		DraCo builtin (r/o).
     86 
     87 If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
     88 release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
     89 driver for:
     90 
     91 	Cyberstorm I SCSI option, Blizzard IV SCSI,
     92 	Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI, CyberVision64/3D.
     93 
     94 Known problems with some hardware:
     95 
     96 	*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
     97 	hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
     98 
     99 	**) Fastlane SCSI is reported to show data errors and hangs at
    100 	least when used with multiple devices on the bus. This might
    101 	be a problem with any FAS board. 
    102 
    103 	***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
    104 	work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
    105 	There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
    106 	accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
    107 	33C93-Adapters, too.
    108 
    109 	****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are 
    110 	write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
    111 	unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
    112 	anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy
    113 	drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at
    114 	boot time.
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