hardware revision 1.1
1NetBSD/i386 1.0 runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems 2with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It 3does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The 4minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and 40M of disk space. To 5install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X 6or compile the system, more RAM is recommended. (4M of RAM will 7actually allow you to run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy. 8Note that until you have around 16M of RAM, getting more RAM is more 9important than getting a faster CPU.) 10 11Supported devices include: 12 Floppy controllers. 13 MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers. 14 SCSI host adapters: 15 Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF [only on kcaha floppy] 16 Adaptec AHA-174x 17 Adaptec AIC-6260- and AIC-6360-based boards, including 18 the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI 19 host adapter. (Note that you cannot boot from 20 these boards if they do not have a boot ROM, 21 and many do not.) 22 Buslogic 54x [AHA-154x clones; only on kcaha floppy] 23 Buslogic 445, 74x, 9xx [only on kcbt floppy] 24 NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI host adapter 25 Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f 26 MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not 27 all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with 28 are supported by X. See the XFree86 FAQ for more 29 information.) 30 Serial ports: 31 8250/16450-based ports 32 16550-based ports 33 AST-style 4-port serial boards [*] 34 IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards [*] 35 Parallel ports. 36 Ethernet controllers: 37 AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber 38 3COM 3c501 [*] 39 3COM 3c503 40 3COM 3c505 [*] 41 3COM 3c507 42 3COM 3c509 and 3c579 43 Digital DEPCA 44 BICC Isolan [not recently tested] 45 SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards 46 SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) 47 Novell NE1000, NE2000 48 Novell NE2100 [not recently tested] 49 Tape drives: 50 Most SCSI tape drives 51 QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- 52 compatible) tape drives [*] 53 CD-ROM drives: 54 Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] 55 Most SCSI CD-ROM drives 56 Mice: 57 "Logitech"-style bus mice [*] 58 "Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] 59 "PS/2"-style mice [*] 60 Serial mice (no kernel support necessary) 61 Miscellaneous: 62 SoundBlaster [*] 63 64Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the 65distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all other drivers are 66present on both kernel-copy disks. Also, at the present time, the 67distributed kernels support only one SCSI host adapter per machine. 68NetBSD normally allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you 69can use all of them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is 70installed. 71 72Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions 73about: 74 Adaptec AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the 75 Adaptec AHA-274x, AHA-284x, and AHA-294x families). 76 Intel EtherExpress Ethernet boards. 77 NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters. 78 PCMCIA devices. 79 QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives 80 that connect to the floppy disk controller.) 81 WD-7000 SCSI host adapters. 82 83We are planning future support for most of these devices. 84 85To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must 86be configured as follows: 87 88Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc 89------ ---- ---- --- --- ---- 90Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 91 com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 92 com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones] 93 94Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling] 95 lpt1 0x278 [polling only] 96 lpt2 0x3bc [polling only] 97 98MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controller 99 wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two disks] 100 101Floppy controller 102 fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks] 103 104AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters 105 aha0 0x330 any any [only on kcaha kernel floppy] 106 107AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode) 108 ahb0 any any any 109 110BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters 111 bt0 0x330 any any [only on kcbt kernel floppy] 112 113Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters 114 uha0 0x330 any any 115 116AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters 117 aic0 0x340 11 6 118 119NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI host adapter 120 ncr0 any any any 121 122SCSI disks sd0 first SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 123 sd1 second SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 124 sd2 third SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 125 sd3 fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id) 126 127SCSI tapes st0 first SCSI tape (by SCSI id) 128 st1 second SCSI tape (by SCSI id) 129 130SCSI CD-ROMs cd0 first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id) 131 cd1 second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id) 132 133SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503, 134Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards 135 ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000 136 ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000 137 ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000 138 1393COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c579 Ethernet boards 140 ep0 any any 141 142AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, or 3COM 3c507 Ethernet boards 143 ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000 144 145BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, or Digitial DEPCA Ethernet boards 146 le0 0x320 10 7 147