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From: rmallory@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Rob Mallory)
Subject: Re: Buslogic 742
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 16:33:02 GMT
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Timothy J Kniveton (tim+@CMU.EDU) wrote:
: I've heard good things about Buslogic 742 EISA controller. Any
: comments? Is the 747 compatible with BSD?
I recently installed the November RELEASE kernel of FreeBSD on my
66DX2/4(big)MB w/ toshiba scsi2 and have noticed _Major_ improvements
over the October kernel release. I assume this improvement relates
to the groovy little message at boottime: "bt0: ........ eisa dma"
Good job guys! It makes life with so little memory (& XFree86-2.0)
worth living! now if I could just slip an Xtank session at v32bis.:)
Last I checked, the NetBSD current source tree had what looked to be
a working (eisa dma/timing) driver for the bt742, as the 0.9 release
made me uncomfortable having to disable all cpu cache to keep it from
hanging. I'm sure the 1.0 release of NetBSD promises to remedy the
situation...
I'm curious myself on exactly how close to an optimum driver for the
*BSD's are in their current src-trees (33MB/sec bursting transfer mode?)
--
Rob Mallory [rmallory@silicon.csci.csusb.edu]
ps: I got a kick out of the "using Kermit to get the base-system"[sic]
line in the latest install_doc of freebsd! what would that work out
to, around 4.5 hours without any errors at 1222cps? Actually, thats
probably a good tradeoff for 13 disks.. Same goes for the X86 dist!
....something to sleep on