hardware revision 1.22 
1	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.22 1998/02/11 17:23:16 is Exp $	
2
3NetBSD/amiga _VER runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
4some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.
5
6For 68020 and 68030 systems, a FPU is recommended but not required. 
768LC040, 68040V and 68LC060 systems don't work correctly at the moment.
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)	95M	125M	75M 	105M
19	swap		----- 2M for every M ram -----
20	local (/usr/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 and II.
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		Cybervision 64/3D.
55
56	Audio I/O:
57		Amiga builtin (currently 8bit-mode only)
58		Melody Mpeg-audio layer 2 board
59		
60	Ethernet controllers:
61		A2065 Ethernet
62		Hydra Ethernet
63		ASDG Ethernet
64		A4066 Ethernet
65		Ariadne Ethernet *****)
66		Quicknet Ethernet
67	ARCnet controllers:
68		A2060 ARCnet
69	Tape drives:
70		Most SCSI tape drives, including
71			Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
72	Scanners:
73		SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
74		HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
75	CD-ROM drives:
76		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
77	Serial cards:
78		HyperCom Z3 and HyperCom 4
79		MultiFaceCard II and III
80		A2232
81	Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 
82		IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
83	Amiga parallel port.
84	Amiga serial port.
85	Amiga mouse.
86	DraCo serial port, including serial mouse.
87	DraCo parallel printer port.
88	Real-time clocks:
89		A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w),
90		DraCo builtin (r/o).
91
92If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
93release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
94driver for:
95
96	Blizzard III SCSI option, Cyberstorm Mk III SCSI option,
97	Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.
98
99Known problems with some hardware:
100
101	*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
102	hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
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
117	*****) There are some people whose NetBSD-1.3 system crashes when
118	using the Ariadne for some time. Others claim it runs stable.
119