Hardware wanted

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Why do we want your old hardware?

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.

If you do not own these devices, but want to help us, we recommend you search on eBay 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 spent on improving OpenBSD instead.

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 here first to check what developers close to you are in need of or want to work on support for.

Additional Notes

Notes:

In each case, please contact Theo de Raadt before simply shipping hardware around. (So that we can decide where the hardware needs to be shipped to).

As an extra incentive, Theo is willing to trade quantities of stickers for some of these things.

When shipping over International borders, never use UPS regular service, because they charge incredible fees for brokerage.

The want list

Alpha hardware

• Some alpha hardware in North America.
• We are especially looking for alphas better than the Multia and axppci33 models.

i386 gear

• Some sort of x86 In-Circuit-Emulator, for debugging really hard bugs.
• BT445S VL SCSI card.
• Aironet 4500/4800 (Cisco 340/350) in PCMCIA and ISA form factors.
• Cabletron Roamabout PCMCIA wireless card
• 3COM Airconnect PCMCIA wireless card
• Intel WPC2011NA PCMCIA wireless card and WPCR2011WW PCI adapter
• 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)

Sparc gear

• SS20.
• Some SBUS ultrasparc machines.
• Some PCI ultrasparc machines.
• SBUS fas fast-wide SCSI card (hme or non-hme card).
• SBUS pcmcia adapters (using STP4020 or similar chipset).
• SBUS "xbox" sbus expander.
• MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
• More very fast hypersparc modules.
• Tadpole S3GX.

PCI gear

• More Gigabit Ethernet PCI cards.
• nge based gigabit ethernet adapters:
  • SMC EZ Card 1000 (SMC9462TX)
  • Asante FriendlyNet GigaNIX 1000TA and 1000TPC
  • Addrton AEG320T
• Level1 LXT1001 based Gigabit ethernet (lge)
  • D-Link DGE-500SX
  • SMC 9462SX
  • SMC 9462TX
• Broadcom BCM570x based Gigabit ethernet
  • 3Com 3c996-T gigE NIC
  • SysKonnect 9D21 gigE NIC
  • Dell PowerEdge 2550 server with integrated BCM5700
• Adaptec 786x-based PCI SCSI boards
• Any supported PCI SCSI board with (at least) one narrow bus for RAIDframe testing.
• S3 SonicVibes PCI audio card
• Initio PCI SCSI cards

USB 2.0 gear

• USB 2.0 PCI Adapter
• USB 2.0 Cardbus Adapter
• USB 2.0 Hard Disk Drive
• USB 2.0 Hub

USB gear

• Any USB devices will help immensely
• USB Ethernet interfaces
• USB Zip Drives, USB Floppy Drives, USB CDRW
• USB Printers
• USB Modems
• USB Keyboards
• USB Mice
• Diamond Rio MP3 Player
• Handspring Visor
• Any other miscellaneous devices with USB connectors

PC Card (PCMCIA)

• Any CardBus cards, especially Ethernet and SCSI.
• A number of ISA->PCMCIA and PCI->CardBus bridge cards.
• Xircom RealPort 10/100 Ethernet + 56K modem + GSM.
• A couple Intel EtherExpress 10/100.
• ATA PCMCIA cards.
• Any Asix AX88190 based NE2000 card.
• ATA Flash cards.
• Any CompactFlash+ Ethernet adapters.
• IBM Microdrives.

PCI->PCMCIA adapters

Infrastructure requirements

• A gigabit switch
• 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.
• A small FDDI concentrator.
• A fairly large UPS (Calgary).
• A Hardware RAID solution.
• DLT backup changer.
• 2 or 3 brand new U2W or LVD 9GB or larger disk drives.

Amiga gear (contact espie@openbsd.org [France])

• Amiga 68060 card, fit for an A2000 or A3000, preferably with fast SCSI and slots for cheap memory.

HPPA gear (contact mickey@openbsd.org [USA])

• HP 9000 J2x0 w/ two cpus (J210 is HP A4081A, CPU is HP A4278A)
• HP 9000/712 multiprotocol interface card (HP A4015A)
• HP 9000/712 2nd graphics w/ 2nd LAN card (HP A4212A)
• HP 9000/712 IEEE488 card (TAMS 50488, see TAMS)

Motorola mvme68k/mvme88k gear (contact smurph@openbsd.org [USA] or miod@openbsd.org [France])

• MVME327 SCSI VME Board plus documentation.
• MVME376 Ethernet VME boards.
• MVME374 Ethernet documentation.
• Any type of VME 6U chassis.
• 1 to 4 gig Non-Wide SCSI drives. (These would help enormously)
• MVME167 or MVME177 board with >= 16 MB ram.
• Any mezzanine memory card, suitable for use in 1[6789]7 CPU boards, with > 32 MB ram or with a mezzanine pass-through for a second memory card.

PowerPC hardware (contact drahn@openbsd.org [USA])

• Apple G4 Server configuration machine.
• PowerBook G3 system.
• iBook system.
• iMac DV system.
• Programmer Reference Guides on any recent Apple hardware.
• Any 603, 604, or 750 based Motorola MVME PowerPC based Single board computers.
• Any 603, 604, or 750 based IBM RS6000 machine.

Sun3 gear (contact miod@openbsd.org [France])

• sun 3/60 motherboards (preferred with PROM version 3.*)
• sun 3/110 motherboard (501-1134)
• VME ethernet cards.
• Carerra (3/1x0) 2 or 4mb memory boards.
• Xylogics 750 VME controller.

VAX gear (contact hugh@openbsd.org [Canada] and bjc@openbsd.org [USA])

• Any unsupported VAX hardware.
• One or more SCSI2 SE Drives 2GB or larger for the build machine.
• DELQA ethernet, DZ-11 serial, most QBUS stuff is still untested!
• Late 80's to 90's hardware documentation.
• MMJ cables, other paraphernalia.
• A fast machine for Brandon.

  We would really like to look at DSSI, but currently lack hardware. A couple drives in sleds for a BA400 enclosure, and an external DSSI cable would be much appreciated.

ISAPNP cards

We want as many as possible, so that our ISAPNP support can become very rock-solid. All sorts wanted, including:

• ISAPNP cards that have IDE connectors.
• WSS audio card.
• CSxxx audio card, that definitely has MIDI support.

Miscellaneous

• Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI drives. We need these to further SCSI driver development. Please, please, please!
• Any Ultra, Ultra/Wide, LVD SE SCSI cables. Internal and External. Also needed for new SCSI driver development.
• External MII (PHY) interface (HPDB40 connector)
• A MIDI playback device, so that the MIDI support can be kept solid.
• 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!

Documentation

• POSIX.1 specifications document (purchased from IETF).
• Any other major relevant Unix standards document (i.e. XPG, Unix99, etc)

Want list for Northern Europe (contact niklas@openbsd.org [Sweden])

SMP hardware

• SMP-capable i386 motherboards with or without CPUs.
• Intel CPUs in matching pair or more.
• SMP-capable alpha computers.
• SMP-capable sparc computers.

Storage

• Large (20-30 GB) laptop IDE disks.
• Wide, Ultra-wide and Ultra2, & Ultra160 LVD SCSI disks.
• Large SCSI tape device (>30GB uncompressed), preferably with a changer.
• UW/LVD SCSI cables.
• Unsupported hardware RAID cards.
• External disk enclosures, preferrably rack-mountable. Hot-swap functionality is yet a bonus.
• Any kind of RAM, SIMMs & DIMMs are always useful.

PCMCIA & Cardbus

• ISA-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards

Network

• Other than Alteon Tigon based NIC(s).
• Other than Netgear gigabit switch.
• Copper gigabit NICs.
• HP 4000M Gigabit ethernet modules, both 1000baseSX and copper is interesting.
• IEEE 802.11b base station.

Miscellaneous

• A 19" rack in the vicinity of Gothenburg.
• Rack-mountable cases accepting regular AT or ATX motherboards.
• A small UPS.
• Electronic console switch.

Want list for South America (contact fgsch@openbsd.org [Argentina])

Sparc gear

• MBus SM71, SM81, or SM81-2 cpu modules.
• SS20 memory and VSIMMs.
• Floppy drive.
• Any supported Sparc hardware.

PCMCIA

• PCI-PCMCIA & PCI-Cardbus bridge cards.
• Any xe(4) 10/100 card.

Token Ring

• A MAU (only UTP).
• Any token ring cards.

Infrastructure

• A 10/100 hub.
• Any x86 mobo with cpu.

Previously Donated

• SBUS qec+qe Ethernet card
• SBUS hme fast Ethernet card
• ISAPNP Adaptec 1542
• ISAPNP SMC EtherEZ 8416 Ethernet card
• PCI AdvanSys ABP940UW SCSI card
• EISA Bustek 740C.
• Netgear FS508 10/100mbit switch with 8 ports
• A fast 4GB SCSI disk drive.
• Adaptec 1535
• New, fast, small 9GB disk drive (SEAGATE ST39102LW)
• SBUS isp fast-wide SCSI card
• 64MB memory modules for SPARCStation-10.
• Intel EtherExpress 16.
• hp735 AUI Ethernet card.
• GSC network and video cards, gecko's cards, memory modules, hil mouse, hd brackets.
• ISAPNP GUS sound card
• ISAPNP ym/opl sound card
• Numerous EtherExpress 100 cards.
• Intel EE Pro 10 PCI card.
• MVME197 Single Board Computer (88110 processor)
• MVME374 Ethernet Board (LANCE)
• 3COM 3C507 Card
• Syskonnect SK-9843 Gigabit PCI card
• 3com 3c985-SX Gigabit PCI card
• Netgear fs509 8*100 + gigabit switch.
• Netgear gs504 4-port gigabit switch.
• pcmcia 260MB ATA card.
• 9GB fast-wide differential SCSI disk.
• fast-wide differential SCSI cable.
• ISAPNP modem.
• Weird ISAPNP sound card with IDE connector.
• SM81-1 (partial donation from MemoryX (they reduced the price for OpenBSD)
• MVME172 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
• MVME177 Single Board Computer. (68060 processor)
• Adaptec AIC-7890/7891/7895 and AIC-7860 programmers manual
• A medium-sized UPS for the OpenBSD mail and lists machine (Boulder Colorado).
• MBus ROSS HyperSPARC 125MHz cpu module.
• AdvanSys 3940U2W SCSI cards (preferably two: one for PC and one for Mac development)
• Sun type4 keyboard.
• 3Com 3c900b Ethernet card
• Two alpha machines for Sweden.
• SMP i386 machines -- for the moment, we have received enough. Thanks. If we need more, we will ask again.
• Intel FXP with National Semiconductor (DP83840, nsphy) phy Ethernet card
• EISA machine with 2 AHA-2742 Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2842 VLB Adaptec controller
• AHA-2902 PCI Adaptec controller
• AHA-2940u2w PCI Adaptec controllers
• AHA-29160 PCI Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2740 EISA Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2940UW PCI Adaptec controllers
• AHA-2940UW Pro PCI Adaptec controller
• 3Com 3c562B Lan+Modem card
• 3Com 3c589B Lan card
• 12GB laptop disk
• Hypersparc SS20 rom (version 2.25).
• PC Card Standard 7.1
• Sun PCMCIA Interface/SBus Card
• HP EISA LAN Adapter, A3303-40.
• D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet cards
• Two DEC PCI FDDI cards
• Two 3W-5400 IDE RAID cards.
• AMI MegaRAID 428, 475, and 467 series.
• SPARCStation-20.
• HP9000/712 cards: video, serial+aui, telephony, serial.
• Vaxstation 3100 m76
• A VME 6U chassis
• some memory for HP9000 machines, GSC-EISA adapter.
• A 6-drive scsi-II hot-swappable disk array.
• Compaq PCI SMARTArray 2/P.
• Sun type 5 keyboard + mouse, SCSI+ethernet card.
• various sizes wide scsi drives.
• AUReal Vortex card.
• Xircom cardbus realport with GSM cable.
• Adaptec RAID controller (Dell PERC 3/Si).
• 2 9GB Ultra160 LVD drives.
• ICP-Vortex GDT6518RS RAID controller.
• 4 18GB Ultra160 LVD SCA drives.
• 4 Pentium II CPUs, and a bunch of DIMMs and RIMMS.
• 512M PC100 222 DIMM.
• Sparc20 CD-rom.
• Sun PCMCIA Interface/SBus Card.
• HP9000/C360
• Original DPT RAID card.
• Dell Perc 3/DC Raid controller
• ABit BP6 Dual-PPGA motherboard
• Sparc Quad Fast Ethernet card.
• 3Com 3C19250 USB ethernet card.
• MVME197LE card.
• ROSS HyperSPARC 150MHZ cpu + 2.25 prom, 2 64MB DIMMs for Sparc.
• Sun type 5 keyboard + mouse, Sparc20 CD-rom and floppy.
• Xircom Realport 1/100+Modem 56.