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+<!-- $Id: hardware.sgml,v 1.1 1997-11-03 08:53:46 max Exp $ -->
+<!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
+
+  <sect>
+    <heading>Hardware compatibility <label id="hardware"></heading>
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports EIDE and SCSI drives (with a compatible
+      controller; see the next section), and all drives using the
+      original "Western Digital" interface (MFM, RLL, ESDI, and
+      of course IDE). A few ESDI controllers that use proprietary
+      interfaces may not work: stick to WD1002/3/6/7 interfaces
+      and clones.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Which SCSI controllers are supported?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports the following SCSI controllers:
+
+      <descrip>
+        <tag/Adaptec/
+          AH-1505 &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+          AH-152x Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+          AH-154x Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+          AH-174x Series &lt;EISA&gt; <newline>
+          Sound Blaster SCSI (AH-152x compat) &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+          AH-2742/2842 Series &lt;ISA/EISA&gt; <newline>
+          AH-2820/2822/2825 Series (Narrow/Twin/Wide) &lt;VLB&gt; <newline>
+          AH-294x and aic7870 MB controllers (Narrow/Twin/Wide) &lt;PCI&gt;
+          <newline>
+          AH-394x (Narrow/Twin/Wide)
+
+        <tag/Buslogic/
+          BT-445 Series &lt;VLB&gt; (this is one of the cards referred to
+          in the section <ref id="bigram" name="on &gt;16 MB machines">)
+          <newline>
+          BT-545 Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+          BT-742 Series &lt;EISA&gt;<newline>
+          BT-747 Series &lt;EISA&gt;<newline>
+          BT-946 Series &lt;PCI&gt; <newline>
+          BT-956 Series &lt;PCI&gt; <newline>
+
+        <tag/Future Domain/
+          TMC-950 Series &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+
+        <tag/PCI Generic/
+          NCR 53C81x based controllers &lt;PCI&gt; <newline>
+          NCR 53C82x based controllers &lt;PCI&gt; <newline>
+          NCR 53C860/75 based controllers &lt;PCI&gt; <newline>
+
+        <tag/ProAudioSpectrum/
+          Zilog 5380 based controllers &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+          Trantor 130 based controllers &lt;ISA&gt; <newline>
+
+        <tag/DTC/
+          DTC 3290 EISA SCSI in AHA-154x emulation.<newline>
+
+        <tag/Seagate/
+          ST-01/02 Series &lt;ISA&gt;<newline>
+
+        <tag/UltraStor/
+          UH-14f Series &lt;ISA&gt;<newline>
+          UH-24f Series &lt;EISA&gt; <newline>
+          UH-34f Series &lt;VLB&gt;<newline>
+
+        <tag/Western Digital/
+          WD7000 &lt;ISA&gt; &lt;No scatter/gather&gt;
+      </descrip>
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Which CD-ROM drives are supported by FreeBSD?</heading>
+
+      <p>Any SCSI drive connected to a supported controller is supported.
+
+      <p>The following proprietry CD-ROM interfaces are also supported:
+
+      <itemize>
+        <item>Mitsumi LU002 (8bit), LU005 (16bit) and FX001D (16bit 2x Speed).
+        <item>Sony CDU 31/33A<newline>
+        <item>Sound Blaster Non-SCSI CD-ROM<newline>
+        <item>Matsushita/Panasonic CD-ROM<newline>
+        <item>ATAPI compatible IDE CD-ROMs<newline>
+      </itemize>
+
+      <p>All non-SCSI cards are known to be extremely slow compared to
+      SCSI drives, and some ATAPI CDROMs may not work.
+
+      <p>As of 2.2 the FreeBSD CDROM from Walnut Creek supports booting
+      directly from the CD.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Does FreeBSD support ZIP drives?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports the SCSI ZIP drive out of the box, of course. The
+      ZIP drive can only be set to run at SCSI target IDs 5 or 6, but if
+      your SCSI host adapter's BIOS supports it you can even boot from
+      it. I don't know which host adapters let you boot from targets
+      other than 0 or 1... look at your docs (and let me know if it works
+      out for you).
+
+      <p>There is no built in support for the parallel ZIP drive, and if you
+      haven't bought your ZIP drive already I recommend you get the SCSI
+      one... the price is the same, and the performance is much better,
+      and you're unlikely to ever be able to boot from the parallel port.
+
+      <p>If you already have a parallel ZIP, there is a port of the Linux
+      driver available at
+
+        <url url="http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html"
+        name="Nicolas Souchu's home page"> in France.
+
+      <p>Also check out <ref id="jaz" name="this note on removable drives">,
+      and <ref id="disklabel" name="this note on 'formatting'">.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>
+        Does FreeBSD support JAZ, EZ and other removable drives?
+      </heading>
+
+      <p>Apart from the IDE version of the EZ drive, these are all SCSI
+      devices, so the should all look like SCSI disks to FreeBSD, and
+      the IDE EZ should look like an IDE drive.
+
+      <p><label id="jaz">I'm not sure how well FreeBSD supports changing
+      the media out while running. You will of course need to dismount the
+      drive before swapping media, and make sure that any external units are
+      powered on when you boot the system so FreeBSD can see them.
+
+      <p>See <ref id="disklabel" name="this note on 'formatting'">.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Which multi-port serial cards are supported by FreeBSD?</heading>
+
+      <p>There is a list of these in the <htmlurl
+      url="../handbook/install:misc.html" name="Miscellaneous devices">
+      section of the handbook.
+
+      <p>Some unnamed clone cards have also been known to work, especially
+      those that claim to be AST compatible.
+
+      <p>Check the <htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?sio"
+      name="sio"> man page to get more information on configuring such cards.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>I have an unusual bus mouse. How do I set it up?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports the Logitech and ATI Inport bus mice.  You need
+      to add the following line to the kernel config file and recompile
+      for the Logitech and ATI mice:
+
+      <verb>
+        device mse0 at isa? port 0x23c tty irq5 vector mseintr
+      </verb>
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>
+        How do I use my PS/2 (``keyboard'') mouse?
+        <label id="ps2mouse">
+      </heading>
+
+      <p>If you're running a relatively recent version of FreeBSD then you
+      can simply enable it in the kernel configuration menu
+      at installation time, otherwise later with -c at the boot:
+      prompt.  It is disabled by default, so you will need to enable
+      it explicitly.
+
+      <p>If you're running an older version of FreeBSD then you'll have to
+      add the following lines to your kernel configuration file and compile
+      a new kernel:
+
+      <verb>
+        device psm0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" conflicts tty irq 12 vector psmintr
+        # Options for psm:
+        options PSM_CHECKSYNC      #checks the header byte for sync.
+      </verb>
+
+      <p>See the <url url="../handbook/kernelconfig.html"
+      name="Handbook entry on configuring the kernel"> if you've no
+      experience with building kernels.
+
+      <p>Once you have a kernel detecting psm0 correctly at boot time,
+      make sure that an entry for psm0 exists in /dev.  You can do this
+      by typing:
+
+      <verb>
+        cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV psm0
+      </verb>
+
+      <p>when logged in as root.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>
+        How do I use the mouse/trackball/touchpad on my laptop?
+      </heading>
+
+      <p>Please refer to <ref id="ps2mouse" name="the answer to the previous
+      question">.  And check out <ref id="pao" name="this note"> on the Mobile
+      Computing page.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>What types of tape drives are supported?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports SCSI, QIC-36 (with a QIC-02 interface) and
+      QIC-40/80 (Floppy based) tape drives.  This includes 8-mm (aka Exabyte)
+      and DAT drives.  The QIC-40/80 drives are known to be slow.
+
+      <p>Some of the early 8-mm drives are not quite compatible with SCSI-2,
+      and may not work well with FreeBSD.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Does FreeBSD support tape changers?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD 2.2 supports SCSI changers using the <htmlurl
+      url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ch(4)" name="ch"> device and
+      the <htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?chio" name="chio">
+      command.  The details of how you actually control the changer can be
+      found in the <htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?chio"
+      name="chio"> man page.
+
+      <p>If you're not using <htmlurl
+      url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?amanda" name="AMANDA"> or
+      some other product that already understands changers, remember that
+      they're only know how to move a tape from one point to another, so
+      you need to keep track of which slot a tape is in, and which slot the
+      tape currently in the drive needs to go back to.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Which sound cards are supported by FreeBSD?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports the SoundBlaster, SoundBlaster Pro, SoundBlaster
+      16, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, AdLib and Gravis UltraSound sound cards.
+      There is also limited support for MPU-401 and compatible MIDI cards.
+      The SoundBlaster 16 ASP cards are not yet supported. The Microsoft
+      Sound System is also supported.
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/ This is only for sound!  This driver does not support
+      CD-ROMs, SCSI or joysticks on these cards, except for the
+      SoundBlaster. The SoundBlaster SCSI interface and some non-SCSI
+      CDROMS are supported, but you can't boot off this device.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Which network cards does FreeBSD support?</heading>
+
+      <p>See the <htmlurl url="../handbook/install:nics.html"
+      name="Ethernet cards"> section of the handbook for a more
+      complete list. Since it doesn't list the drivers
+      you need to use for each of the cards, this incomplete
+      list will have to do.
+
+      <descrip>
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?de(4)"
+        name="de"> driver/
+        DEC DC21x40 and compatible PCI controllers<newline>
+        (including 21140 100bT cards) <newline>
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ed(4)"
+        name="ed"> driver/ NE2000 and 1000<newline>
+        WD/SMC 8003, 8013 and Elite Ultra (8216)<newline>
+        3Com 3c503 <newline>
+        HP 27247B and 27252A <newline>
+        And clones of the above <newline>
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?le(4)"
+        name="le"> driver/
+        DEC EtherWORKS II and EtherWORKS III controllers. <newline>
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ie(4)"
+        name="ie"> driver/
+        AT&amp;T EN100/StarLAN 10 <newline>
+        3COM 3c507 Etherlink 16/TP<newline>
+        NI5210 <newline>
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?is(4)"
+        name="is"> driver/
+        Isolan AT 4141-0 <newline>
+        Isolink 4110 <newline>
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?el(4)"
+        name="el"> driver/
+        3com 3c501 (does not support Multicast or DMA)
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?eg(4)"
+        name="eg"> driver/
+        3com 3c505 Etherlink/+
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ze(4)"
+        name="ze"> driver/
+        IBM PCMCIA credit card adapter
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?lnc(4)"
+        name="lnc"> drive/
+        Lance/PCnet cards (Isolan, Novell NE2100, NE32-VL)(*)
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ep(4)"
+        name="ep"> driver/
+        3com 3c509 (Must disable PNP support on card)
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ix(4)"
+        name="ix"> driver/
+        Intel InterExpress
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?cx(4)"
+        name="cx"> driver/
+        Cronyx/Sigma multiport Sync/Async (Cisco and PPP framing)
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?zp(4)"
+        name="zp"> driver/
+        3Com PCMCIA Etherlink III (aka 3c589)(A-C only)
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fea(4)"
+        name="fea"> driver/
+        DEC DEFEA EISA FDDI controller
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fpa(4)"
+        name="fpa"> driver/
+        DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI controller
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?fe(4)"
+        name="fe"> driver/
+        Fujitsu MB86960A/MB86965A Ethernet cards
+      </descrip>
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/	Drivers marked with (*) are known to have problems.
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/	3C598D is NOT supported yet.
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/ We also support TCP/IP over parallel lines.  At this point
+      we are incompatible with other versions, but we hope to correct
+      this in the near future.  Refer to the description in the lp(4)
+      man page.
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/ Some of these cards require a DOS partition on your hard
+      drive to run the configuration software. Software configured cards
+      may also need to be hard-reset after running another operating
+      system that uses manufacturer-supplied drivers. This may even
+      require a full power cycle.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>I don't have a math co-processor - is that bad?</heading>
+
+      <p><tt /Note/ This will only affect 386/486SX/486SLC owners - other
+      machines will have one built into the CPU.
+
+      <p>In general this will not cause any problems, but there are
+      circumstances where you will take a hit, either in performance or
+      accuracy of the math emulation code (see the section <ref id="emul"
+      name="on FP emulation">).  In particular, drawing arcs in X will be
+      VERY slow.  It is highly recommended that you buy a math
+      co-processor; it's well worth it.
+
+      <p><bf/NOTE/ Some math co-processors are better than others.  It pains
+      us to say it, but nobody ever got fired for buying Intel.  Unless
+      you're sure it works with FreeBSD, beware of clones.
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>What other devices does 2.X support?</heading>
+
+      <p>Here is a listing of drivers which do not fit into any of the
+      earlier categories.
+
+      <descrip>
+        <tag><tt/b004.c/</tag>
+        Driver for B004 compatible Transputer boards <newline>
+
+        <tag>``ctx'' driver</tag>
+              Driver for CORTEX-I Frame grabber <newline>
+
+        <tag>``gp'' driver</tag>
+              Driver for National Instruments AT-GPIB and<newline>
+              AT-GPIB/TNT boards
+
+        <tag>``pca'' driver</tag>
+              Driver for PC speakers to allow the playing of audio files
+
+        <tag>``spigot'' driver</tag>
+              Driver for the Creative Labs Video Spigot
+
+        <tag><htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?gsc(4)"
+                name="gsc"> driver</tag>
+              Driver for the Genuis GS-4500 Hand scanner
+
+        <tag><htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?joy(4)"
+                name="joy"> driver</tag>
+              Driver for a joystick
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?labpc(4)"
+                name="labpc"> driver/
+              Driver for National Instrument's Lab-PC and Lab-PC+
+
+        <tag/``uart'' driver/
+              Stand-alone 6850 UART for MIDI
+
+        <tag/<htmlurl url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?psm(4)"
+        name="psm"> driver/ PS/2 mouse port
+
+        <tag><tt/tw.c/</tag>
+        Driver for the X-10 POWERHOUSE <newline>
+      </descrip>
+
+<!--
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>I am about to buy a new machine. What do you recommend?</heading>
+
+      <p>See the <url url="../handbook/hw.html" name="hardware section">
+      of the handbook for general tips if you're going to build it
+      yourself, otherwise see the 
+      FreeBSD <url url="http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardware.html"
+      name="Hardware vendors"> page for various companies who offer
+      FreeBSD compatible systems.
+-->
+
+    <sect1>
+      <heading>Does FreeBSD support power management on my laptop?</heading>
+
+      <p>FreeBSD supports APM on certain machines.  Please look in the
+      <tt/LINT/ kernel config file, searching for the <htmlurl 
+      url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?apm" name="APM"> keyword.
+
+  </sect>
+