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From: csshah@sunvis2.vislab.olemiss.edu (Viren R. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD / NetBSD / FreeBSD
Date: 30 Sep 93 13:22:50 GMT
Organization: Mississippi Center for SuperComputing Research
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References: <1993Sep28.050914.3374@cs.sfu.ca> <1993Sep29.182618.11087@news.csuohio.edu> <1993Sep29.155751.2394@resonex.com> <CE5tu9.Eo5@veda.is>
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In <CE5tu9.Eo5@veda.is> adam@veda.is (Adam David) writes:



>Bounce buffers are not yet implemented in the SCSI system, and there may be
>other device drivers using busmaster DMA which have a similar problem. The
>ISA bus cards cannot address higher than the first 16MB, because there are
>not enough address lines. This is not a problem with EISA cards on an EISA
>bus, but continues to be a problem if ISA cards (or EISA cards configured
>for ISA compatibility) are used in an EISA system. Bounce buffers are
>implemented in the kernel for generic ISA bus access, but only the floppy
>driver is using this feature so far.

I'm getting an EISA system with an Adaptec 1742c, 32MB RAM,etc But, my
network card will be a SMC Elite16, which, i think is an ISA card?
will this cause a problem with 32MB RAM? Should i get a 32-bit network
card? 
thanx



>--
>adam@veda.is


viren
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