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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!belfast.dcd.wa.gov.au!belfast.dcd.wa.gov.au!not-for-mail From: juliane@belfast.dcd.wa.gov.au (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Does it solve the 16M problem Date: 13 Sep 1993 10:55:21 +0800 Organization: Dept of Community Development, Perth, Australia Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <270nep$oa@belfast.dcd.wa.gov.au> References: <g89r4222.747163756@kudu> <26itba$eaj@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <CD2qLA.vq@autelca.ascom.ch> <JKH.93Sep9162315@thrush.lotus.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: belfast.dcd.wa.gov.au In article <JKH.93Sep9162315@thrush.lotus.com> jkh@thrush.lotus.com (Jordan K Hubbard - he's back again) writes: > >The only way to get full EISA, 32MB-of-memory-and-everything, mode is >to use an EISA controller in full EISA mode (for Adaptec 1742, this >is "enhanced" mode, for DTC 3290 it's "DTC" mode). Unfortunatly we don't (as far as I know) have a DTC driver.. > >FreeBSD (and NetBSD) currently support the Adaptec 1742 in enhanced >mode. I don't think there is any other combination that will get you >more than 16MB in an EISA machine at the moment. Jordan, You forget that we have TWO EISA drivers (aha1742 and bt742) and can also run two VESA scsi controllers.. (the ultrastore 14f driver also runs the 34f board, and the bt742 driver also apparently (I've not tested it but have been told) also runs the bustek(buslogic?) VESA board (bt445?) so in fact if you have a VESA/ISA machine, htere is hope, if you get one of the two VESA boards. (VESA is also 32 bits). julian >