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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!ssd.intel.com!chnews!imutm1.de.intel.com!gold.sub.org!jonas.gold.sub.org!rommel From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: EISA & 386bsd? Distribution: world Message-ID: <731275720rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> Sender: root@jonas.gold.sub.org Date: Thu, 04 Mar 93 21:08:40 MET References: <1mul2rINNe0a@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1993Mar2.065348.4909@coe.montana.edu> <C3Av8D.39I@ns1.nodak.edu> Organization: Private Lines: 25 In article <C3Av8D.39I@ns1.nodak.edu> ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes: >osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: >)gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) writes: >)>I have just ordered a 486/EISA based system for our site planning >)>to use it for 386bsd. I've been told that EISA is entirely upwardly >)>compatible with ISA and that MSDOS runs on such systems without >)>problems. Will 386bsd run on EISA without problems too? In particular >)>will it recognise a 32 Bit Hard Disk Controller? >) >)Works fine for me on a DEC 486-50DX EISA box with 2 Adaptec 1740's. > >Works fine on a Gateway2000 486DX2-66 EISA with one Adaptec 1740. Does it work with the 1740 in enhanced mode? If so, does 386BSD then see and use more than 16MB of memory? Kai Uwe Rommel -- /* Kai Uwe Rommel Muenchen, Germany * * rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org Phone +49 89 723 4101 * * rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de Fax +49 89 723 7889 */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams