NetBSD-5.0.2/distrib/notes/amiga/hardware

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.Nx \*V
runs on any Amiga that has a 68020 or better CPU with
some form of MMU, and on 68060 DraCos.
.Pp
.Nx
does not, and will never, run on run on
A1000, A500, A600, A1200, A2000, A4000/EC030, CDTV and CD32
systems that are not enhanced by a CPU board.
.Pp
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.
.Pp
The minimal configuration requires 6 MB of RAM (not including CHIPMEM!)
and about 100 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.
(6 MB of RAM will actually allow you to compile,
however it won't be speedy.
X really isn't usable on a 6 MB system.)
.Pp
You will probably want to compile your own kernel.
.Li GENERIC
is large and bulky in order to accommodate all people.
For example, most people's machines have an FPU, so you do not need the
bulky FPU_EMULATE option.
.Pp
If you have less than 8 MB of fast memory, you should make your swap
partition large, as your system will be a lot of swapping.
In addition, do
.Em not
place your swap partition onto a old small (and normally slow) disk!
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.Ss2 Supported devices
.(bullet -offset indent
A4000/A1200 IDE controller, including ATAPI devices
.It
SCSI host adapters
.(bullet -compact
33c93 based boards: A2091, A3000 builtin, A3000 builtin modified for Apollo
accelerator board (please note that this is not the same as the SCSI host
adapter on the Apollo accelerator board itself, which is unsupported),
and GVP series II.
.It
53c80 based boards: 12 Gauge, IVS, Wordsync/Bytesync and Emplant
The Emplant SCSI adapter has been reported by a party to
hang after doing part of the installation without problems
.It
53c710 based boards: A4091, Magnum, Warp Engine, Zeus and DraCo builtin
.It
FAS216 based SCSI boards: FastLane Z3, Blizzard I and II, Blizzard IV,
Blizzard 2060, CyberSCSI Mk I and II
.It
53c770 based SCSI boards: Cyberstorm Mk III SCSI, Cyberstorm PPC SCSI
.bullet)
.It
Video controllers
.(bullet -compact
ECS, AGA and A2024 built in on various Amigas
.It
Retina Z2 (no X server available), Retina Z3 and Altais
.It
Cirrus CL GD 54xx based boards: GVP Spectrum, Picasso II, II+ and IV,
Piccolo and Piccolo SD64
.It
Tseng ET4000 based boards: Domino and Domino16M proto, oMniBus, Merlin
.It
A2410 (no X server available)
.It
Cybervision 64
.It
Cybervision 64/3D
.bullet)
.It
Audio I/O
.(bullet -compact
Amiga builtin
.It
Melody MPEG-audio layer 2 board
.It
Repulse audio board
.bullet)
.It
Ethernet controllers
.(bullet -compact
A2065 Ethernet
.It
Hydra Ethernet
.It
ASDG Ethernet
.It
A4066 Ethernet
.It
Ariadne Ethernet
.It
Ariadne II Ethernet
.It
Quicknet Ethernet
.It
X-surf Ethernet port
.bullet)
.It
ARCnet controllers
.(bullet -compact
A2060 ARCnet
.bullet)
.It
Most SCSI tape drives, including Archive Viper, Cipher SCSI-2 ST150
.It
SCSI-2 scanners behaving as SCSI-2 scanner devices, HP ScanJet II,
Mustek SCSI scanner.
SCSI scanner support is machine independent, so it should
work, but hasn't been tested 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.
.It
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
.It
Serial/Parallel cards
.(bullet -compact
HyperCom 3Z, HyperCom 4, HyperCom 3+ and 4+
.It
MultiFaceCard II and III
.It
A2232 (normal and clockdoubled)
.It
IOBlix Zorro-Bus
.bullet)
.It
Amiga floppy drives with Amiga (880/1760kB) and
.Tn IBM
(720/1440kB) encoding.
Our floppy driver doesn't notice when mounted floppies are
write-protected.
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.
.It
Amiga parallel port
.It
Amiga serial port
.It
Amiga mouse
.It
DraCo serial port, including serial mouse
.It
DraCo parallel printer port
.It
Real-time clocks
.(bullet -compact
A2000, A3000, A4000 builtin (r/w)
.It
DraCo builtin (r/o)
.bullet)
.bullet)
.Pp
If it's not on the above lists, there is no support for it in this release.
In particular, there are no drivers for: Blizzard III SCSI option,
Ferret SCSI, Oktagon SCSI.