FreeBSD对硬件的支持

安装FreeBSD之前首先要了解FreeBSD是否支持你所拥有的硬件,一般来讲FreeBSD对硬件的支持还是很好的,但也需要在安装前仔细阅读帮助文件,看一看是否有不支持的硬件,以免给你带来不必要的麻烦 。在安装软件中文件HARDWARE.TXT中详细介绍了FreeBSD支持的硬件 。下面是FreeBSD 3.0-Release对硬件的支持情况:FreeBSD currently runs on a wide varIEty of ISA, VLB, EISA and PCI bus based PC"s, ranging from 386sx to Pentium class Machines (though the 386sx is not recommended). Support for generic IDE or ESDI driveconfigurations, various SCSI controller, network and serial cards is also provided.What follows is a list of all peripherals currently known to work withFreeBSD. Other configurations may also work, we have simply not as yet received confirmation of this.1. Disk Controllers
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WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)
WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)
IDE
ATA
Adaptec 1535 ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.
Adaptec 274X/284X/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series ISA/EISA/PCI SCSI controllers.
Adaptec AIC7850/AIC7895 on-board SCSI controllers.Support for the following controllers is rather weak:Adaptec 1510 series ISA SCSI controllers (not for bootable devices)
Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers
Adaptec AIC-6260 and AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards.** Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, such being necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They"re perfectly usable for external tapes,CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset, and in such cases you *will* also be able to boot from them.Check your system/board documentation for more details.AdvanSys (Advanced Systems) ABP510/542/5150 ISA and ABP5140/5142 ISA PnP cards, ABP842/852 VLB cards, and ABP920/930/930U/930UA/950/960/960U/970/970U PCI cards.** Note: The ADP510/5140/5150 boards were shipped by HP with the 4020i CD-R drive but with NO BIOS, so these models cannot control boot devices though they can be used for any secondary SCSI device. Also note that the ABP5140/5142 boards were rebadged by SIIG as the "SpeedMaster i540/i542"Buslogic 545S & 545c
Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller
Buslogic 742A, 747S, 747c EISA SCSI controller.
Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller
Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller
SymBios (formerly NCR) 53C810, 53C825, 53c860 and 53c875 PCI SCSIcontrollers: ASUS SC-200
Data Technology DTC3130 (all variants)
NCR cards (all)
Symbios cards (all)
Tekram DC390W, 390U and 390F
Tyan S1365Tekram DC390 and DC390T controllers (maybe other cards based on the AMD 53c974 as well).
NCR5380/NCR53400 ("ProAudio Spectrum") SCSI controller.
DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.
UltraStor 14F, 24F and 34F SCSI controllers.
Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.WD7000 SCSI controller.With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT and 8mm Exabyte) and CD ROM drives.The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:(cd) SCSI interface (also includes ProAudio Spectrum and SoundBlaster SCSI)
(mcd) Mitsumi proprietary interface (all models, driver is rather stale)
(matcd) Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative SoundBlaster) proprietary interface (562/563 models)
(scd) Sony proprietary interface (all models)
(wcd) ATAPI IDE interface.
2. Network cards
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AMD PCnet/PCI (79c970 & 53c974 or 79c974)
SMC Elite 16 WD8013 ethernet interface, and most other WD8003E,

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