hardware revision 1.25
1 $NetBSD: hardware,v 1.25 1998/08/09 22:29:01 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 for the 7system utilities. 868LC040, 68040V and 68LC060 systems don't work correctly at the moment. 9 10The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 75M of disk 11space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, 12and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of 13RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X 14really isn't usable on a 4M system.) 15 16Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install: 17 partition: advise, with X, needed, with X 18 root (/) 20M 20M 15M 15M 19 user (/usr) 95M 125M 75M 105M 20 swap ----- 2M for every M ram ----- 21 local (/usr/local) up to you 22 23 24As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than 25needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as 26you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large 27and bulky to accommodate all people). 28 29If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition 30larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping. 31 32Supported devices include: 33 A4000/A1200 IDE controller. 34 SCSI host adapters: 35 33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin and GVP series II. 36 53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and 37 Emplant.*) 38 53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus 39 and DraCo builtin. 40 FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II, 41 Blizzard IV, Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I and II. 42 Video controllers: 43 ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas. 44 Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais. 45 Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards: 46 GVP Spectrum, 47 Picasso II, II+ and IV, 48 Piccolo and Piccolo SD64. 49 Tseng ET4000 based boards: 50 Domino and Domino16M proto, 51 oMniBus, 52 Merlin. 53 A2410. 54 Cybervision 64. 55 Cybervision 64/3D. 56 57 Audio I/O: 58 Amiga builtin (currently 8bit-mode only) 59 Melody Mpeg-audio layer 2 board 60 61 Ethernet controllers: 62 A2065 Ethernet 63 Hydra Ethernet 64 ASDG Ethernet 65 A4066 Ethernet 66 Ariadne Ethernet 67 Quicknet Ethernet 68 ARCnet controllers: 69 A2060 ARCnet 70 Tape drives: 71 Most SCSI tape drives, including 72 Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150. 73 Scanners: 74 SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices, 75 HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***) 76 CD-ROM drives: 77 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives 78 Serial cards: 79 HyperCom 3Z and HyperCom 4 80 MultiFaceCard II and III 81 A2232 (normal and clockdoubled) 82 Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 83 IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****) 84 Amiga parallel port. 85 Amiga serial port. 86 Amiga mouse. 87 DraCo serial port, including serial mouse. 88 DraCo parallel printer port. 89 Real-time clocks: 90 A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w), 91 DraCo builtin (r/o). 92 93If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this 94release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no 95driver for: 96 97 Blizzard III SCSI option, Cyberstorm Mk III SCSI option, 98 Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI. 99 100Known problems with some hardware: 101 102 *) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to 103 hang after doing part of the installation without problems. 104 105 ***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should 106 work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations. 107 There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if 108 accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other 109 33C93-Adapters, too. 110 111 ****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are 112 write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay 113 unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write 114 anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy 115 drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at 116 boot time. 117