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1.90 deraadt 17: <h2><font color=#e00000>Hardware wanted</font><hr></h2>
1.1 deraadt 18:
1.90 deraadt 19: <h3><font color=#e00000>Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 20: <p>
21: The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
22: Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
23: support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
24: will improve our development environment. In either case, we think we are
1.78 deraadt 25: being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>
1.1 deraadt 26:
1.78 deraadt 27: If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
1.96 aaron 28: search on <a href=http://www.ebay.com>eBay</a> for the devices. If
1.78 deraadt 29: you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
30: helps us. It's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
31: time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
1.109 niklas 32: spend on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
33:
1.110 aaron 34: As a reasonably large quantity of OpenBSD developers and users are in northern
1.109 niklas 35: Europe we have setup a specific want list for that area. If you are in that
1.110 aaron 36: region, go <a href=#n-eur>here</a> first to check what developers close
1.109 niklas 37: to you are in need of or want to work on support for.
1.22 deraadt 38:
1.90 deraadt 39: <h3><font color=#e00000>Additional Notes</font></h3>
1.1 deraadt 40: <p>
1.90 deraadt 41: Notes:
42: <dl>
43: <li>In each case, please contact
1.1 deraadt 44: <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>
1.2 mickey 45: before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where
1.90 deraadt 46: the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>
47: <li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
48: for some of these things.<p>
49: <li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,
50: because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>
51: </dl>
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1.90 deraadt 53: <hr>
1.22 deraadt 54:
1.90 deraadt 55: <h3><font color=#e00000>The want list</font></h3>
56: <dl>
57: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Alpha hardware</font></h4>
1.51 deraadt 58: <ul>
1.111 ! deraadt 59: <li>Some alpha hardware in North America.
1.51 deraadt 60: <li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
61: Multia and axppci33 models.
1.111 ! deraadt 62: <li>If we do not get some of these very soon, we are not going to
! 63: ship OpenBSD/alpha on the 2.7 CD-ROM (it isn't worth our effort).
1.51 deraadt 64: </ul>
65: <p>
1.90 deraadt 66: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>i386 gear</font></h4>
1.89 deraadt 67: <ul>
1.93 brad 68: <li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
1.90 deraadt 69: <li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
1.96 aaron 70: <li>Intel i82586/i82596-based Ethernet cards
71: (i.e., BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,
1.90 deraadt 72: Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,
1.108 rohee 73: AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)
1.89 deraadt 74: </ul>
75: <p>
1.90 deraadt 76: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 77: <ul>
1.111 ! deraadt 78: <li>SS20.
1.96 aaron 79: <li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines.
80: <li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
81: <li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
1.40 deraadt 82: <li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
1.76 deraadt 83: <li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
1.96 aaron 84: <li>SBUS bpp card.
1.107 deraadt 85: <li>MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
1.111 ! deraadt 86: <li>More very fast hypersparc modules.
1.74 deraadt 87: <li>Tadpole S3GX.
1.40 deraadt 88: </ul>
89: <p>
1.90 deraadt 90: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCI gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 91: <ul>
1.99 deraadt 92: <li>Two Intel Gigabit PCI cards.
1.106 smurph 93: <li>Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
94: <li>Adaptec 787x-based PCI SCSI boards (2940, etc...)
95: <li>Adaptec 788x-based PCI SCSI boards (Ultra cards)
96: <li>Adaptec 789x-based PCI SCSI boards (Ultra2 cards)
1.96 aaron 97: <li>D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
98: <li>SiS 900 or 7016-based Ethernet cards
1.45 niklas 99: <li>Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus
100: for RAIDframe testing.
1.96 aaron 101: <li>S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
102: <li>Initio PCI SCSI cards
1.111 ! deraadt 103: <li>A DEC PCI FDDI card
1.40 deraadt 104: </ul>
105: <p>
1.106 smurph 106: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>EISA gear</font></h4>
107: <ul>
108: <li>An EISA machine.
109: <li>Adaptec 777x-based EISA SCSI boards
110: <li>Adaptec AHA-274x EISA SCSI boards
111: <li>Adaptec AHA-284x EISA SCSI boards
112: <li>Adaptec AHA-284xB EISA SCSI boards
113: </ul>
114: <p>
1.90 deraadt 115: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 116: <ul>
1.75 deraadt 117: <li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations. To increase our
118: development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
119: need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
1.96 aaron 120: <li>A small FDDI concentrator.
121: <li>A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
1.105 deraadt 122: <li>A Hardware RAID solution.
123: <li>DLT backup changer.
1.111 ! deraadt 124: <li>2 or 3 brand new U2W or LVD 9GB or larger disk drives.
1.40 deraadt 125: </ul>
1.3 deraadt 126: <p>
1.90 deraadt 127: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Amiga gear</font></h4>
128: <ul>
1.96 aaron 129: <li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI
1.15 deraadt 130: and slots for cheap memory.
1.90 deraadt 131: </ul>
1.5 espie 132: <p>
1.90 deraadt 133: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>HPPA gear</font></h4>
1.40 deraadt 134: <ul>
1.52 mickey 135: <li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
1.100 mickey 136: <li>HP 9000/712/100 (upgrade for 712/80, HP A4222A)
1.52 mickey 137: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd RS-232 port card (HP A4013A)
138: <li>HP 9000/712 lan and RS-232 card (HP A4014A)
139: <li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
140: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics card (HP A2878A)
141: <li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
142: <li>HP 9000/712 TeleShare POTS iface, analog RJ11C (HP A4012A, HP A4012AJ)
143: <li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488,
144: see <a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hp-ib712.htm">TAMS</a>)
1.40 deraadt 145: </ul>
146: <p>
1.90 deraadt 147: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear</font></h4>
1.50 smurph 148: <ul>
1.72 smurph 149: <li>MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
1.106 smurph 150: <li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
1.91 smurph 151: <li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
1.72 smurph 152: <li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
1.50 smurph 153: </ul>
154: <p>
1.97 rahnds 155: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PowerPC hardware</font></h4>
156: <ul>
157: <li>Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
158: <li>PowerBook G3 system.
159: <li>iBook system.
160: <li>iMac DV system.
161: <li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
1.106 smurph 162: <li>Any 603, 604, or 750 based Motorola MVME PowerPC based Single
163: board computers.
1.97 rahnds 164: </ul>
165: <p>
1.90 deraadt 166: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>ISAPNP cards</font></h4>
167: We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
168: very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:<p>
1.40 deraadt 169: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 170: <li>Some NE2000 and SMC ISAPNP cards.
171: <li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
1.40 deraadt 172: <li>WSS audio card.
1.96 aaron 173: <li>CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.
1.40 deraadt 174: </ul>
175: <p>
1.90 deraadt 176: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA</font></h4>
177: Any bizzare unused devices, including:<p>
1.40 deraadt 178: <ul>
1.78 deraadt 179: <li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA bridge cards.
1.96 aaron 180: <li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM
1.67 deraadt 181: <li>EtherExpress 100 pcmcia.
1.40 deraadt 182: <li>PC Card Specifications (PC Card Standard - Release 6.1)
1.78 deraadt 183: <li>ATA PCMCIA cards.
184: <li>ATA Flash cards.
1.40 deraadt 185: </ul>
1.105 deraadt 186: <p>
187: <a href="http://www.synchrotech.com/products/card-rw_08.html">
188: PCI->PCMCIA adapters</a>
1.7 art 189: <p>
1.90 deraadt 190: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>
1.46 jason 191: <ul>
1.106 smurph 192: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
193: SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
194: <li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
195: Also needed for new SCSI driver devlopment.
1.46 jason 196: <li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
1.70 deraadt 197: <li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
1.73 deraadt 198: <li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
199: and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
200: devices in use!
1.46 jason 201: </ul>
1.47 jason 202: <p>
1.90 deraadt 203: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Documentation</font></h4>
204: <ul>
205: <li>POSIX.1 specifications document, printed.
206: <li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document, printed.
1.106 smurph 207: <li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
208: <li>MVME327 SCSI documentation.
1.90 deraadt 209: </ul>
210: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 211:
1.109 niklas 212: <a name=n-eur></a>
213: <h3><font color=#e00000>Want list for Nothern Europe</font></h3>
214: <dl>
215: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>SMP hardware</font></h4>
216: <ul>
217: <li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
218: <li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
219: <li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
220: </ul>
221: <p>
222: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Storage</font></h4>
223: <ul>
224: <li>Wide, Ultra-wide & LVD SCSI disks.
225: <li>Reasonably large tape device (>10GB uncompressed),
226: preferrably with a changer. SCSI preferred, ATAPI may do.
227: <li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
228: <li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
229: </ul>
230: <p>
231: <li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA & Cardbus</font></h4>
232: <ul>
233: <li>ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards</li>
234: </ul>
235: <p>
236: </dl>
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1.1 deraadt 238: <hr>
1.90 deraadt 239:
240: <h3><font color=#e00000>Previously Donated</font></h3>
1.34 deraadt 241: Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
242: following items which we requested here. Those people are listed in
243: the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>. Thanks!
1.33 deraadt 244: <p>
245: <ul>
1.96 aaron 246: <li>SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
247: <li>SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
1.33 deraadt 248: <li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
1.96 aaron 249: <li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
250: <li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
1.37 mickey 251: <li>EISA Bustek 740C
1.40 deraadt 252: <li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
1.96 aaron 253: <li>A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive
1.40 deraadt 254: <li>Adaptec 1535
255: <li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
1.96 aaron 256: <li>SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
1.49 deraadt 257: <li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
1.58 mickey 258: <li>Intel EtherExpress 16
1.96 aaron 259: <li>hp735 AUI Ethernet card
1.65 mickey 260: <li>GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse,
261: hd brackets
1.67 deraadt 262: <li>ISAPNP GUS sound card
263: <li>ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
264: <li>Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
1.68 deraadt 265: <li>Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
1.72 smurph 266: <li>MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
267: <li>MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
1.82 mickey 268: <li>3COM 3C507 Card
1.86 deraadt 269: <li>Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
270: <li>3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
271: <li>Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
272: <li>Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
273: <li>pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
1.96 aaron 274: <li>9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
275: <li>fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
1.90 deraadt 276: <li>ISAPNP modem.
277: <li>Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
278: <li>SM81-1 (partial donation from <a href=http://www.memoryx.com>MemoryX</a> (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
1.91 smurph 279: <li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
280: <li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
1.92 deraadt 281: <li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
1.99 deraadt 282: <li>A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
1.101 deraadt 283: <li>MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
284: <li>AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for
285: Mac development)
286: <li>Sun type4 keyboard.
1.103 jason 287: <li>3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
1.111 ! deraadt 288: <li>Two alpha machines for Sweden.
! 289: <li>SMP i386 machines -- for the moment, we have received enough. Thanks. If we need
! 290: more, we will ask again.
! 291: <li>Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
1.33 deraadt 292: </ul>
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