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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!newsflash.concordia.ca!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does the BusLogic 545S working with FreeBSD? Date: 4 Feb 1994 22:03:57 GMT Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2iugod$ge@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> References: <2irngp$4rk@nigel.msen.com> <2is8cf$q66@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca Keywords: BusLogic, SCSI, FreeBSD In article <2is8cf$q66@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >In article <2irngp$4rk@nigel.msen.com>, > >First of all, it's not an Adaptec problem that you can only use <= 16MB >or RAM, it's an ISA bus problem. So, getting a different ISA card buys >you the new features of that ISA card (the Buslogic maybe faster, I >don't know), but it will NOT get around the hardware limitation of DMA >past 16MB. it is worth noting that the bus logic bt445s -will- let you getaround the problem---it is a vlb controller. it supposedly works just fine with the ahb kernel. [some people have reported that they have required updated roms for the cards however] marc 'em. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--