Supported PC Hardware (as of Tue Apr 9 00:04:25 PDT 2002)

This page lists hardware known to work with Plan 9. Most hardware is listed by chipset: you may need to know what chipset your particular cards use.

FLOPPY DISKS

Plan 9 supports generic floppy drives, although some people have had trouble accessing them. If you have trouble accessing your 3.5" floppy drive and also have a 5.25" floppy drive, try disabling the latter in the BIOS.

IDE/ATAPI DISKS

Plan 9 supports almost all motherboard IDE/ATAPI controllers, but DMA transfers are only used on these recognized chipsets (chipsets not listed here will simply run slower; you can try turning on DMA by editing /sys/src/9/pc/sdata.c).

SCSI

CARDBUS AND PCMCIA CONTROLLERS

The following cardbus controllers are supported:

If the cardbus chipset is not supported, Plan 9 falls back to the PCMCIA driver, which handles the Intel i82365, Cirrus Logic CL-PD6710, Cirrus Logic CL-PD6720, Vadem VG-46x, and compatibles. This covers most laptops.

ETHERNET

These cards are supported but not as well used:

VGA CARDS AND CHIPSETS

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