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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: FreeBSD: Does it solve the 16M problem Date: 7 Sep 1993 21:10:02 GMT Organization: Montana Stateu University, Bozeman MT Lines: 23 Message-ID: <26itba$eaj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <g89r4222.747163756@kudu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <g89r4222.747163756@kudu>, Geoff Rehmet <g89r4222@kudu.ru.ac.za> wrote: >Does FreeBSD solve the 386BSD problem of not allowing the more >than 16M on an ISA bus due to DMA problems? (Network and SCSI >cards seem to be the main causes of these DMA problems.) No, we have not implemented generic bounce buffers. In short, the answer I tell everyone is that if you need more than 16MB, get an architecture that can do it (EISA), or buy BSDI. :-) If you NEED more than 16MB on an ISA bus, you are already in trouble, so why not spend the extra $$ and buy an EISA machine with EISA cards. 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 :-)