Re: Amiga hardware issues

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 11:54:46PM +0300, ??????? ??????????? wrote:
> Thank you very much for your reply.
> How did you solved a partition problem ?

I just created the partiton, even that hdtoolbox showed wrong numbers.
That doesn't matter for NetBSD.

> What partitions did you created in amigaos ? root only ?

root, swap, usr and other partitions.

> Can I create other partitions  - e.g. for /home and /usr in NetBSD ? (During
> install, I mean)

You first need to create them with hdtoolbox, with the correct rdb type and
then you can use it under NetBSD.

> And performance - is it faster than linux ?  (sorry for idiotic question,
> anyway =))

I can't answer that, because I only tried to use linux on my amiga with a
linux kernel 0.9.x and it didn't had an ide driver at that time, so it was
not possible for me to use it. That was over 10 years ago.

Bernd

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bernd Ernesti [mailto:netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost] 
> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:26 PM
> To: port-amiga%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: nzabrod
> Subject: Re: Amiga hardware issues
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 06:15:04PM +0300, nzabrod wrote:
> > Hello !
> > I have couple of questions about NetBSD for Amiga usage.
> > Currently, I'm using Debian Linux, and my A1200 is used for nightly
> BittTorent and other (Gnutella, FastTrack) downloads.
> > So, questions:
> 
> > 1. Will my 30 gb IDE drive (or larger) will be fully supported ? In Linux
> I partitioned it successfully, but in AmigaOS I've got weird sizes of my
> HDD. I 'm confused, because install guide talks about partitioning in
> AmigaOS, so I can't access whole 30 gb in Amiga OS =(.
> 
> Yes. I had the same problem when I configured a 18GB scsi drive in my A4000,
> but it just works, despide the wrong output of hdtoolbox.
> Just make sure that your root partition is in the first GB on the disk.
> 
> > 2. Will cheap NE2000 clone PCMCIA ethernet be supported ? I had a lot of
> troubles with it firstly, but later after much help it worked flawlessly.
> 
> Hmm, maybe. IMHO ne2000 clones are the only one which would work, but it can
> still depend on this specific card.
> 
> > 3. Is there any performance boost on NetBSD in comparison to m68k Linux ?
> I have a 68030 board with 32 mb fast ram. Will it be enough to run
> complicated python scripts or something like BitTorrent on NetBSD ?
> 
> I don't know if 32MB is enough for this kind of operations, because I never
> tried it on my amiga.
> 
> > 4. Is AGA PAL or NTSC modes are available ? In linux I use SSH to 
> > manage system, but on install process I used just TV (monitor is not 
> > available)
> 
> Yes.
> 
> Bernd
>