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<h2><font color=#e00000>Hardware wanted</font><hr></h2>
<h3><font color=#e00000>Why do we want your old hardware?</font></h3>
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The following list outlines hardware that the OpenBSD project could use.
Some of this is being requested so that developers can improve or add driver
support for devices which are rare; other requests are for hardware that
will improve our development environment. In either case, we think we are
being reasonable at asking for these devices.<p>
If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you
search on <a href=http://www.ebay.com>eBay</a> for the devices. If
you do the bidding and then get the device shipped to us, it really
helps us. It's much better if our developers do not need to spend the
time going through the bidding process, since any time saved can be
spend on improving OpenBSD instead.<p>
As a reasonably large quantity of OpenBSD developers and users are in northern
Europe we have setup a specific want list for that area. If you are in that
region, go <a href=#n-eur>here</a> first to check what developers close
to you are in need of or want to work on support for.
<h3><font color=#e00000>Additional Notes</font></h3>
<p>
Notes:
<dl>
<li>In each case, please contact
<a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>
before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where
the hardware needs to be shipped to).<p>
<li>As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers
for some of these things.<p>
<li>When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service,
because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.<p>
</dl>
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<h3><font color=#e00000>The want list</font></h3>
<dl>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Alpha hardware</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Some alpha hardware in North America.
<li>We are especially looking for alphas better than the
Multia and axppci33 models.
<li>If we do not get some of these very soon, we are not going to
ship OpenBSD/alpha on the 2.7 CD-ROM (it isn't worth our effort).
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>i386 gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
<li>BT445S VL SCSI card.
<li>Intel i82586/i82596-based Ethernet cards
(i.e., BusLogic Bt763E EISA, Intel Flash32 EISA,
Cogent eMaster EM935/EM932 EISA,
AT&T StarLAN 10, AT&T EN100)
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Sparc gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>SS20.
<li>Some SBUS ultrasparc machines.
<li>Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
<li>SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
<li>SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
<li>SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
<li>SBUS bpp card.
<li>MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
<li>More very fast hypersparc modules.
<li>Tadpole S3GX.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCI gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Two Intel Gigabit PCI cards.
<li>Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
<li>Adaptec 787x-based PCI SCSI boards (2940, etc...)
<li>Adaptec 788x-based PCI SCSI boards (Ultra cards)
<li>Adaptec 789x-based PCI SCSI boards (Ultra2 cards)
<li>D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
<li>SiS 900 or 7016-based Ethernet cards
<li>Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus
for RAIDframe testing.
<li>S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
<li>Initio PCI SCSI cards
<li>A DEC PCI FDDI card
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>EISA gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>An EISA machine.
<li>Adaptec 777x-based EISA SCSI boards
<li>Adaptec AHA-274x EISA SCSI boards
<li>Adaptec AHA-284x EISA SCSI boards
<li>Adaptec AHA-284xB EISA SCSI boards
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Infrastructure requirements</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Really fast PC motherboard+cpu combinations. To increase our
development efforts on a continual basis, two of our x86 machines
need to be upgraded about every 4-5 months.
<li>A small FDDI concentrator.
<li>A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
<li>A Hardware RAID solution.
<li>DLT backup changer.
<li>2 or 3 brand new U2W or LVD 9GB or larger disk drives.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Amiga gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI
and slots for cheap memory.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>HPPA gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
<li>HP 9000/712/100 (upgrade for 712/80, HP A4222A)
<li>HP 9000/712 2nd RS-232 port card (HP A4013A)
<li>HP 9000/712 lan and RS-232 card (HP A4014A)
<li>HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
<li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics card (HP A2878A)
<li>HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
<li>HP 9000/712 TeleShare POTS iface, analog RJ11C (HP A4012A, HP A4012AJ)
<li>HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488,
see <a href="http://www.tamsinc.com/hp-ib712.htm">TAMS</a>)
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
<li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
<li>Any type of VME 6U chassis.
<li>1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PowerPC hardware</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
<li>PowerBook G3 system.
<li>iBook system.
<li>iMac DV system.
<li>Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
<li>Any 603, 604, or 750 based Motorola MVME PowerPC based Single
board computers.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>ISAPNP cards</font></h4>
We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become
very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:<p>
<ul>
<li>Some NE2000 and SMC ISAPNP cards.
<li>ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
<li>WSS audio card.
<li>CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA</font></h4>
Any bizzare unused devices, including:<p>
<ul>
<li>A number of ISA->PCMCIA bridge cards.
<li>Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM
<li>EtherExpress 100 pcmcia.
<li>PC Card Specifications (PC Card Standard - Release 6.1)
<li>ATA PCMCIA cards.
<li>ATA Flash cards.
</ul>
<p>
<a href="http://www.synchrotech.com/products/card-rw_08.html">
PCI->PCMCIA adapters</a>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Miscellaneous</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further
SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
<li>Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External.
Also needed for new SCSI driver devlopment.
<li>External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
<li>A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
<li>Any spare IDE/ATAPI devices people might have. It's a mess,
and high quality software requires that we have PLENTY of test
devices in use!
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Documentation</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>POSIX.1 specifications document, printed.
<li>Any other major relevant Unix standards document, printed.
<li>MVME324 Ethernet documentation.
<li>MVME327 SCSI documentation.
</ul>
</dl>
<a name=n-eur></a>
<h3><font color=#e00000>Want list for Nothern Europe</font></h3>
<dl>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>SMP hardware</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
<li>Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
<li>SMP-capable alpha computers.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>Storage</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>Wide, Ultra-wide & LVD SCSI disks.
<li>Reasonably large tape device (>10GB uncompressed),
preferrably with a changer. SCSI preferred, ATAPI may do.
<li>Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
<li>Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.
</ul>
<p>
<li><h4><font color=#0000e0>PCMCIA & Cardbus</font></h4>
<ul>
<li>ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards</li>
</ul>
<p>
</dl>
<hr>
<h3><font color=#e00000>Previously Donated</font></h3>
Since this web page was created in Oct, 1998, people have donated the
following items which we requested here. Those people are listed in
the ranks of our <a href=donations.html>donations page</a>. Thanks!
<p>
<ul>
<li>SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
<li>SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
<li>ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
<li>ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
<li>PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
<li>EISA Bustek 740C
<li>Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
<li>A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive
<li>Adaptec 1535
<li>New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
<li>SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
<li>64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
<li>Intel EtherExpress 16
<li>hp735 AUI Ethernet card
<li>GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse,
hd brackets
<li>ISAPNP GUS sound card
<li>ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
<li>Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
<li>Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
<li>MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
<li>MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
<li>3COM 3C507 Card
<li>Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
<li>3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
<li>Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
<li>Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
<li>pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
<li>9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
<li>fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
<li>ISAPNP modem.
<li>Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
<li>SM81-1 (partial donation from <a href=http://www.memoryx.com>MemoryX</a> (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
<li>MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
<li>MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
<li>Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
<li>A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
<li>MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
<li>AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for
Mac development)
<li>Sun type4 keyboard.
<li>3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
<li>Two alpha machines for Sweden.
<li>SMP i386 machines -- for the moment, we have received enough. Thanks. If we need
more, we will ask again.
<li>Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
</ul>
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