hardware revision 1.4
$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.4 2000/10/10 12:55:19 lukem Exp $
. .Nx*M \*V runs on PCI-based Power Macs and several compatibles. The minimal configuration requires 4 MB of RAM and ~80 MB of disk space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended, as .Nx with 4 MB of RAM is very slow. Note that until you have around 16 MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU. . .Ss2 Supported models .(bullet -compact -offset indent Apple Power Macintosh 7300/7600/8500/8600/9500/9600 t Apple Power Macintosh G3 MT266/DT233 t Apple PowerBook 2400c/180 t Apple iMac (netboot only) t UMAX Apus2000 t PowerComputing PowerWave 604/120 t Motorola StarMax 3000/240 t PowerCity 4000/200 (StarMax 4000/200 OEM) t APS M*Power 604e/200 .bullet) . .Ss2 Unsupported models .(bullet -compact -offset indent Systems without Open Firmware. (e.g. PowerBook 5xxx) t NuBus-based systems t PowerPC601-based systems t m68k-based systems with a PowerPC upgrade card .bullet) . .Ss2 Supported devices .(bullet -offset indent Ethernet .(bullet -compact On-board 79C950-based Ethernet interface. ("mace") t On-board bmac Ethernet interface. (10Base-T only) t PCI NE2000 compatible Ethernet adapters. ("ne") .bullet) t SCSI .(bullet -compact On-board 53c94 SCSI controller t On-board MESH SCSI controller ("mesh") t Adaptec 291x, 2920, 2930C, 294x, 295x, 39xx, 19160, 29160 and AIC-78xx SCSI controller ("ahc") t AdvanSys 1200[A,B], 9xx[U,UA] SCSI controller. (Since it has no OpenFirmware support, you cannot boot from drive connected to this card) t Most of SCSI disk/tape/CD-ROM devices should work .bullet) t PCI controller .(bullet -compact Bandit/MPC106 .bullet) t IDE .(bullet -compact On-board IDE controler which is found in several models. (e.g. iMac) Most hard drives and CD-ROMs should work .bullet) t ADB devices .(bullet -compact Most ADB keyboards and mice .bullet) t PS/2 devices
. .Nx*M \*V runs on PCI-based Power Macs and several compatibles. The minimal configuration requires 4 MB of RAM and ~80 MB of disk space. To install the entire system requires much more disk space, and to run X or compile the system, more RAM is recommended, as .Nx with 4 MB of RAM is very slow. Note that until you have around 16 MB of RAM, getting more RAM is more important than getting a faster CPU. . .Ss2 Supported models .(bullet -compact -offset indent Apple Power Macintosh 7300/7600/8500/8600/9500/9600 t Apple Power Macintosh G3 MT266/DT233 t Apple PowerBook 2400c/180 t Apple iMac (netboot only) t UMAX Apus2000 t PowerComputing PowerWave 604/120 t Motorola StarMax 3000/240 t PowerCity 4000/200 (StarMax 4000/200 OEM) t APS M*Power 604e/200 .bullet) . .Ss2 Unsupported models .(bullet -compact -offset indent Systems without Open Firmware. (e.g. PowerBook 5xxx) t NuBus-based systems t PowerPC601-based systems t m68k-based systems with a PowerPC upgrade card .bullet) . .Ss2 Supported devices .(bullet -offset indent Ethernet .(bullet -compact On-board 79C950-based Ethernet interface. ("mace") t On-board bmac Ethernet interface. (10Base-T only) t PCI NE2000 compatible Ethernet adapters. ("ne") .bullet) t SCSI .(bullet -compact On-board 53c94 SCSI controller t On-board MESH SCSI controller ("mesh") t Adaptec 291x, 2920, 2930C, 294x, 295x, 39xx, 19160, 29160 and AIC-78xx SCSI controller ("ahc") t AdvanSys 1200[A,B], 9xx[U,UA] SCSI controller. (Since it has no OpenFirmware support, you cannot boot from drive connected to this card) t Most of SCSI disk/tape/CD-ROM devices should work .bullet) t PCI controller .(bullet -compact Bandit/MPC106 .bullet) t IDE .(bullet -compact On-board IDE controler which is found in several models. (e.g. iMac) Most hard drives and CD-ROMs should work .bullet) t ADB devices .(bullet -compact Most ADB keyboards and mice .bullet) t PS/2 devices
(PowerMac 4400 and several compatibles have PS/2 devices) .(bullet -compact PS/2 Keyboards t PS/2 Mice (middle button of 3-button one does not work) .bullet) t Video (video card/on-board video) .(bullet -compact PCI frame buffers which have Open Firmware support .bullet) t Serial ports .(bullet -compact ttya and ttyb (AKA the serial/printer port) can be used as console if needed .bullet) .bullet) . .Ss2 Unsupported devices .(bullet -offset indent Floppy disk .(item -offset indent Though .Nx*M can boot from it, there is no kernel support yet .item) t AWACS internal audio .bullet)