Subject: Re: Intel: supported hardware?
To: Hubert Feyrer <Hubert.Feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/30/1994 19:06:11
> Is there a list of hardware supported by NetBSD/Intel?
I'm in the process of writing up installation notes, and will be
kicking out some _real_ binaries that people can test install as soon
as one of my least favorite regional network providers gets their
collective butt in gear to fix a problem...
anyway, below is the 'hardware' list. Note that not all of the
supported hardware isn't supported on the distribution floppies, for
various reasons. (In particular, i'm disappointed that the 'wt'
driver won't be on the distribution floppies. however, if it is, it
can reprogram people's SMC/Western Digital ethernet boards accidentally!)
chris
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NetBSD/i386 1.0 runs on ISA (AT-Bus), EISA, PCI, and VL-bus systems
with 386-family processors, with or without math coprocessors. It
does NOT support MCA systems, such as some IBM PS/2 systems. The
minimal configuration requires 4M of RAM and 40M 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 run X and/or compile, but it won't be speedy.)
Supported devices include:
Floppy controllers.
MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
SCSI host adapters:
Adaptec AHA-152x (and other AIC-6260-based boards, such
as the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter)
Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF [only on kcaha floppy]
Adaptec AHA-174x
Adaptec AIC-6360-based boards
Buslogic 54x [AHA-154x clones; only on kcaha floppy]
Buslogic 445, 74x, 9xx [only on kcbt floppy]
NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI host adapter
Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters. (Note that not
all of the display adapters NetBSD/i386 can work with
are supported by X.)
Serial ports:
8250/16450-based ports
16550-based ports
AST-style 4-port serial boards [*]
IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards [*]
Parallel ports.
Ethernet controllers:
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
3COM 3c501 [*]
3COM 3c503
3COM 3c505 [*]
3COM 3c507
3COM 3c509 and 3c579
Digital DEPCA
BICC Isolan [not recently tested]
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)
Novell NE1000, NE2000
Novell NE2100 [not recently tested]
Tape drives:
Most SCSI tape drives
QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek-
compatible) tape drives [*]
CD-ROM drives:
Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*]
Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
Mice:
"Logitech"-style mice [*]
"Microsoft"-style mice [*]
"PS/2"-style mice [*]
Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
Miscellaneous:
SoundBlaster [*]
Drivers for hardware marked with "[*]" are NOT included on the
distribution floppies. Except as noted above, all other drivers are
present on both kernel-copy disks. Also, at the present time, the
distributed kernels support only one SCSI host adapter per machine.
NetBSD normally allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you
can use all of them by compiling a custom kernel once NetBSD is
installed.
Hardware the we do NOT currently support, but get many questions
about:
Adaptec AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the
Adaptec AHA-274x, AHA-284x, and AHA-294x families).
Intel EtherExpress Ethernet boards.
NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
PCMCIA devices.
QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives. (Those are the tape drives
that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
To be detected by the distributed kernels, the devices must
be configured as follows:
Device Name Port IRQ DRQ Misc
------ ---- ---- --- --- ----
Serial ports com0 0x3f8 4 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com1 0x2f8 3 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
com2 0x3e8 5 [8250/16450/16550/clones]
Parallel ports lpt0 0x378 7 [interrupt-driven or polling]
lpt1 0x278 [polling only]
lpt2 0x3bc [polling only]
MFM/ESDI/IDE/RLL hard disk controller
wdc0 0x1f0 14 [supports two disks]
Floppy controller
fdc0 0x3f0 6 2 [supports two disks]
AHA-154x, AHA-174x (in compatibility mode), or BT-54x SCSI host adapters
aha0 0x330 any any [only on kcaha kernel floppy]
AHA-174x SCSI host adapters (in enhanced mode)
ahb0 any any any
BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters
bt0 0x330 any any [only on kcbt kernel floppy]
Ultrastor 14f, 24f (if it works), or 34f SCSI host adapters
uha0 0x330 any any
AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters
aic0 0x340 11 6
NCR 53C810 PCI SCSI host adapter
ncr0 any any any
SCSI disks sd0 first SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd1 second SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd2 third SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
sd3 fourth SCSI disk (by SCSI id)
SCSI tapes st0 first SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
st1 second SCSI tape (by SCSI id)
SCSI CD-ROMs cd0 first SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
cd1 second SCSI CD-ROM (by SCSI id)
SMC/WD 8003, 8013, Elite16, and Elite16 Ultra Ethernet boards, 3c503,
Novell NE1000, or NE2000 Ethernet boards
ed0 0x280 2 iomem 0xd0000
ed1 0x250 2 iomem 0xd8000
ed2 0x300 10 iomem 0xcc000
3COM 3c509 or 3COM 3c597 Ethernet boards
ep0 any any
AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, or StarLAN Fiber, or 3COM 3c507 Ethernet boards
ie0 0x360 7 iomem 0xd0000
BICC Isolan, Novell NE2100, or Digitial DEPCA Ethernet boards
le0 0x320 10 7
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