hardware revision 1.27 
1	$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.27 1998/11/12 19:59:30 veego 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
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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).
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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, A3000 builtin 
36		    modified for Apollo accellerator board, and GVP series II.
37		53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and 
38		    Emplant.*)
39		53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus 
40		    and DraCo builtin.
41		FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II,
42		    Blizzard IV, Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I and II.
43	Video controllers:
44		ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
45		Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
46		Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards:
47		    GVP Spectrum,
48		    Picasso II, II+ and IV,
49		    Piccolo and Piccolo SD64.
50		Tseng ET4000 based boards:
51		    Domino and Domino16M proto,
52		    oMniBus,
53		    Merlin.
54		A2410.
55		Cybervision 64.
56		Cybervision 64/3D.
57
58	Audio I/O:
59		Amiga builtin (currently 8bit-mode only)
60		Melody Mpeg-audio layer 2 board
61		
62	Ethernet controllers:
63		A2065 Ethernet
64		Hydra Ethernet
65		ASDG Ethernet
66		A4066 Ethernet
67		Ariadne Ethernet
68		Ariadne II Ethernet
69		Quicknet Ethernet
70	ARCnet controllers:
71		A2060 ARCnet
72	Tape drives:
73		Most SCSI tape drives, including
74			Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
75	Scanners:
76		SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
77		HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
78	CD-ROM drives:
79		Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
80	Serial cards:
81		HyperCom 3Z and HyperCom 4
82		MultiFaceCard II and III
83		A2232 (normal and clockdoubled)
84	Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and 
85		IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
86	Amiga parallel port.
87	Amiga serial port.
88	Amiga mouse.
89	DraCo serial port, including serial mouse.
90	DraCo parallel printer port.
91	Real-time clocks:
92		A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w),
93		DraCo builtin (r/o).
94
95If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
96release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
97driver for:
98
99	Blizzard III SCSI option, Cyberstorm Mk III SCSI option,
100	Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.
101
102Known problems with some hardware:
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104	*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
105	hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
106
107	***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
108	work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
109	There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
110	accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
111	33C93-Adapters, too.
112
113	****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are 
114	write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
115	unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
116	anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy
117	drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at
118	boot time.
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