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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: EISA experiences? Date: 15 Jul 1993 19:02:43 GMT Organization: Montana State University Lines: 21 Message-ID: <2249kj$e1e@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <21f1t9$r3c@pandora.sdsu.edu> <2490@hcshh.hcs.de> <21jl0hINN679@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <21jl0hINN679@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> j@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de (J Wunsch) writes: >(The only point of discussion has been the magic limit >of 16 MB to *ISA* [bus master DMA], and whether this would be auto- >magically removed when using an EISA. I don't know the answer, >only:-) have 16 MB.) You can use more than 16MB of memory safely in an EISA machine as long as all of your cards are EISA based that do DMA using the bus. There are quite a few EISA machines I know of with more than 16MB of memory. Matter of fact, we had one EISA machine here that had 64MB of memory (don't know how much of it was used by 386BSD 0.1 though) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)