NetBSD/distrib/notes/amiga/hardware

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$NetBSD: hardware,v 1.27 1998/11/12 19:59:30 veego Exp $
NetBSD/amiga _VER runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.
For 68020 and 68030 systems, a FPU is recommended but not required for the
system utilities.
68LC040, 68040V and 68LC060 systems don't work correctly at the moment.
The minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and about 75M 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. (4M of
RAM will actually allow you to compile, however it won't be speedy. X
really isn't usable on a 4M system.)
Here is a table of recommended HD partition sizes for a full install:
partition: advise, with X, needed, with X
root (/) 20M 20M 15M 15M
user (/usr) 95M 125M 75M 105M
swap ----- 2M for every M ram -----
local (/usr/local) up to you
As you may note the recommended size of /usr is 20M greater than
needed. This is to leave room for a kernel source and compile tree as
you will probably want to compile your own kernel. (GENERIC is large
and bulky to accommodate all people).
If you only have 4M of fast memory, you should make your swap partition
larger, as your system will be doing much more swapping.
Supported devices include:
A4000/A1200 IDE controller.
SCSI host adapters:
33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin, A3000 builtin
modified for Apollo accellerator board, and GVP series II.
53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and
Emplant.*)
53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus
and DraCo builtin.
FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II,
Blizzard IV, Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I and II.
Video controllers:
ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas.
Retina Z2, Retina Z3 and Altais.
Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards:
GVP Spectrum,
Picasso II, II+ and IV,
Piccolo and Piccolo SD64.
Tseng ET4000 based boards:
Domino and Domino16M proto,
oMniBus,
Merlin.
A2410.
Cybervision 64.
Cybervision 64/3D.
Audio I/O:
Amiga builtin (currently 8bit-mode only)
Melody Mpeg-audio layer 2 board
Ethernet controllers:
A2065 Ethernet
Hydra Ethernet
ASDG Ethernet
A4066 Ethernet
Ariadne Ethernet
Ariadne II Ethernet
Quicknet Ethernet
ARCnet controllers:
A2060 ARCnet
Tape drives:
Most SCSI tape drives, including
Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150.
Scanners:
SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices,
HP Scanjet II, Mustek SCSI scanner.***)
CD-ROM drives:
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
Serial cards:
HyperCom 3Z and HyperCom 4
MultiFaceCard II and III
A2232 (normal and clockdoubled)
Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and
IBM (720/1440kB) encoding. ****)
Amiga parallel port.
Amiga serial port.
Amiga mouse.
DraCo serial port, including serial mouse.
DraCo parallel printer port.
Real-time clocks:
A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w),
DraCo builtin (r/o).
If its not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this
release. Especially (but this is an incomplete list), there is no
driver for:
Blizzard III SCSI option, Cyberstorm Mk III SCSI option,
Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.
Known problems with some hardware:
*) the Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
hang after doing part of the installation without problems.
***) SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
work, but hasn't been tested yet on most Amiga configurations.
There are reports that the Mustek and HP Scanjet hang if
accessed from the A3000. This might apply to other
33C93-Adapters, too.
****) Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are
write-protected at the moment. Your floppy will stay
unchanged, but you might not notice that you didn't write
anything due to the buffer cache. Also note that HD floppy
drives only get detected as such if a HD floppy is inserted at
boot time.