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 <li>3c59x and 3c9xx cards work.  <li>3c59x and 3c9xx cards work.
 <li>Can mount DOS file systems with cluster size > 16KB.  <li>Can mount DOS file systems with cluster size > 16KB.
 </ul>  </ul>
   
 <p>  <p>
 <strong>Installation with Other Operating Systems:</strong>  <h3>Installation with Other Operating Systems:</h3>
 <br>  
 The OpenBSD i386 port can be installed to share the system disks with  The OpenBSD i386 port can be installed to share the system disks with
 other operating systems such as MSDOS, Windows or Linux using the MSDOS  other operating systems such as MSDOS, Windows or Linux using the MSDOS
 MBR/partition scheme and an optional boot selector.  Everyday operation is  MBR/partition scheme and an optional boot selector.  Everyday operation is
 trouble free, but setup requires care and Windows '95 installation is known  trouble free, but setup requires care and Windows '95 installation is known
 to be careless about pre-existing MBR/partition information.  to be careless about pre-existing MBR/partition information.
 See the Installation Notes for more details.  See the Installation Notes for more details.
   
 <p>  <p>
 <strong>Supported Hardware:</strong>  <h3>Supported Hardware:</h3>
 <br>  
 The OpenBSD i386 port works across a broad range of standard PC's and clones,  The OpenBSD i386 port works across a broad range of standard PC's and clones,
 with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architecures.  It can be expected  with a wide variety of processors and I/O bus architecures.  It can be expected
 to install and run with minimal diffculty on most current products.  to install and run with minimal diffculty on most current products.
 The cases where problems may be encountered are typically older proprietary  The cases where problems may be encountered are typically older proprietary
 PC's, Laptops or specialized server boxes that rely on a custom BIOS to paper  PC's, Laptops or specialized server boxes that rely on a custom BIOS to paper
 over implementation differences.  over implementation differences.
   
 <p>  <p>
 OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors, but will run using  OpenBSD does not currently support multiple processors, but will run using
 one processor on a multi-processor system board.  one processor on a multi-processor system board.
   
 <p>  <p>
 <strong>Working hardware includes:</strong>  
 <br>  
 (Drivers listed with an XXX are included, but may not be completely functional,  
 as do not own all the hardware listed to test them on an on-going basis.  
 Also, please note any reservations listed.  You must let us know if this list  
 is incorrect, or if a driver is broken.)  
 <ul>  <ul>
 <li> All mainstream i386 architecture CPU chips, including 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium-Pro and compatibles such as the AMD K5 series.  <li> All mainstream i386 architecture CPU chips, including 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium-Pro and compatibles such as the AMD K5 series.
 <li> Basically all standard ISA, VLB, PCI, or PCMCIA bus based machines.  <li> Basically all standard ISA, VLB, PCI, or PCMCIA bus based machines.
 <li> No support for "Micro Channel" MCA bus used in many IBM PS/2 models.  
 <p>  
 <li> Floppy controllers.  <li> Floppy controllers.
 <li> MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.  <li> MFM, ESDI, IDE, and RLL hard disk controllers.
 <li> Most ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drives  <li> SCSI host adapters:
 <p>    <ul>
 <li> MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.    <li> Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF
 <p>    <li> Adaptec AHA-174x
 <li> 8250/16450-based ports    <li> Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, including the Adaptec AHA-152x and the SoundBlaster SCSI host adapter.  (Note that you cannot boot from these boards if they do not have a boot ROM; only the AHA-152x and motherboards using this chip are likely to be bootable, consequently.)
 <li> 16550-based ports    <li> Adaptec AHA-294x[W] cards and some onboard PCI designs using the AIC7870 chip.  This driver does *not* currently work with non-PCI AIC-7xxx boards or the Adaptec 3940.
 <li> AST-style 4-port serial boards    <li> Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones; driver on kcadp floppy)
 <li> BOCA 8-port serial cards    <li> BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not the new "FlashPoint" series of BusLogic SCSI adapters)
 <li> Cyclades Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards (XXX)    <li> Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters
 <li> IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards    <li> Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f
     <li> Seagate/Future Domain ISA SCSI adapter cards, including
       <ul>
       <li> ST01/02
       <li> Future Domain TMC-885
       <li> Future Domain TMC-950
       </ul>
     </ul>
   
   <li> MDA, CGA, VGA, SVGA, and HGC Display Adapters.  (Note that not all of the display adapters OpenBSD/i386 can work with are supported by X.  See the XFree86 FAQ for more information.)
   
   <li> Serial ports:
     <ul>
     <li> 8250/16450-based ports
     <li> 16550-based ports
     <li> AST-style 4-port serial boards [*]
     <li> BOCA 8-port serial cards [*]
     <li> Cyclades Cyclom-{4, 8, 16}Y serial boards [*]
     <li> IBM PC-RT 4-port serial boards [*]
     </ul>
   
 <li> Parallel ports.  <li> Parallel ports.
   
   <li> PCMCIA: most chipsets.
   
   <li> ATM cards -- some. Mail chuck@openbsd.org to get this entry updated.
   
   <li> Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters (support barely missed this release; it works in other ports, and will work in this one in the next release)
   
   <li> Ethernet adapters:
     <ul>
     <li> 3COM 3c589 pcmcia ethernet
   
     <li> AMD LANCE and PCnet-based ISA Ethernet adapters [*], including:
       <ul>
       <li> Novell NE1500T
       <li> Novell NE2100
       <li> Kingston 21xx
       </ul>
   
     <li> AMD PCnet-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
       <ul>
       <li> BOCALANcard/PCI
       <li> AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber
       <li> 3COM 3c501
       <li> 3COM 3c503
       <li> 3COM 3c505 [*]
       <li> 3COM 3c507
       <li> 3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, 3c59x and 3c9xx
       </ul>
   
     <li> Digital DC21x4x-based PCI Ethernet adapters, including:
       <ul>
       <li> SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!)
       <li> Znyx ZX34X
       <li> Cogent EM100
       <li> Digital DE450
       <li> Digital DE500
       </ul>
   
     <li> BICC Isolan [* and not recently tested]
     <li> Intel EtherExpress 16
     <li> SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards
     <li> SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)  [X SEE BELOW]
     <li> Novell NE1000, NE2000
     <li> Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters
     </ul>
   
   <li> Tape drives:
     <ul>
     <li> Most SCSI tape drives
     <li> Most SCSI tape changers
     <li> QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (Archive- and Wangtek- compatible) tape drives [*] [+]
     </ul>
   
   <li> CD-ROM drives:
     <ul>
     <li> Mitsumi CD-ROM drives [*] [+] [Note: The Mitsumi driver device probe is known to cause trouble with several devices!]
     <li> Most SCSI CD-ROM drives
     <li> Most ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drives
     </ul>
   
   <li> Mice:
     <ul>
     <li> "Logitech"-style bus mice [*] [+]
     <li> "Microsoft"-style bus mice [*] [+]
     <li> "PS/2"-style mice [*] [+]
     <li> Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)
     </ul>
   
   <li> Sound Cards:
     <ul>
     <li> SoundBlaster [*] [+]
     <li> Gravis Ulrasound and Ultrasound Max [*] [+]
     <li> [The following drivers are not extensively tested]
       <ul>
       <li> Personal Sound System [*] [+]
       <li> Windows Sound System [*] [+]
       <li> ProAudio Spectrum [*] [+]
       </ul>
     </ul>
   </ul>
   
   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.
   OpenBSD normally allows more, though, so if you have more than one, you
   can use all of them by compiling a custom kernel once OpenBSD is
   installed.
   
   Support for devices marked with "[+]" IS included in the "generic" kernels,
   although it is not in the kernel on the installation floppy.
   
   </p>
   
 <p>  <p>
 <li> AMD LANCE and PCnet-ISA: Novell NE1500T/Novell NE2100, Kingston 21xx  <h3>Unsupported Hardware</h3>
 <li> AMD PCnet-PCI: BOCALANcard/PCI  <ul>
 <li> AT&T StarLAN 10, EN100, and StarLAN Fiber  <li> "Micro Channel" MCA bus used in many IBM PS/2 models.
 <li> 3COM 3c501  
 <li> 3COM 3c503  
 <li> 3COM 3c505  
 <li> 3COM 3c507  
 <li> 3COM 3c509, 3c579, 3c589, and 3c9xx  
 <li> 3COM 3c59x (XXX)  
 <li> Digital DC21x4x PCI: SMC EtherPower 10, 10/100 (PCI only!), Znyx ZX34X,  
         Cogent EM100, Digital DE450, Digital DE500  
 <li> BICC Isolan (XXX)  
 <li> Intel EtherExpress 16  
 <li> SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards  
 <li> SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards)  
 <li> Novell NE1000, NE2000  
 <p>  
 <li> Adaptec AHA-154xA, -B, -C, and -CF, Buslogic 54x  
 <li> Adaptec AHA-174x  
 <li> Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360  
 <li> Adaptec AHA-294x[W] and other PCI AIC-7xxx chips/boards.  
 <li> BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx  (But not "FlashPoint" series)  
 <li> Symbios Logic (NCR) 53C8xx-based PCI SCSI host adapters  
 <li> Ultrastor 14f, 34f, and (possibly) 24f  
 <li> ST01/02, Future Domain TMC-885/TMC-950  
 <li> Most SCSI tape drives  
 <li> QIC-02 and QIC-36 format (XXX)  
 <li> Mitsumi CD-ROM drives (XXX)  
 <li> Most SCSI CD-ROM drives  
 <li> Most SCSI tape changers.  
 <p>  
 <li> "Logitech"-style bus mice  
 <li> "Microsoft"-style bus mice  
 <li> "PS/2"-style mice  
 <li> Serial mice (no kernel support necessary)  
 <p>  
 <li> SoundBlaster  
 <li> Gravis Ulrasound and Ultrasound Max  
 <li> Personal Sound System  
 <li> Windows Sound System  
 <li> ProAudio Spectrum  
 <p>  
 <li> APM power management -- if your system supports it, turn it off!  <li> APM power management -- if your system supports it, turn it off!
 <li> PCMCIA: most chipsets.  <li> Adaptec AIC-7770-based SCSI host adapters (including the Adaptec AHA-274x, AHA-284x families).
 <li> 3COM 3c589 pcmcia ethernet  <li> NCR 5380-based SCSI host adapters.
   <li> QIC-40 and QIC-80 tape drives.  (Those are the tape drives that connect to the floppy disk controller.)
 <li> WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.  <li> WD-7000 SCSI host adapters.
 <li> Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI adapters (support barely missed this release;  <li> PCI-PCI bridges and cards which include them, such as the AHA-394x SCSI host adapter and some DC21x4x-based multi-Ethernet cards.
         it works in other ports, and will work in this one in the  <li> Multiprocessor Pentium and Pentium Pro systems.  (Though they should run fine using one processor only.)
         next release)  <li> Intel EtherExpress 100 Fast Ethernet adapters.
 <li> ATM cards -- some. Mail chuck@openbsd.org to get this entry updated.  
 </ul>  </ul>
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