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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!comlab.ox.ac.uk!olis.lib.ox.ac.uk!JOSE From: JOSE@olis.lib.ox.ac.uk Subject: ISA SCSI controllers and 32Mb RAM Message-ID: <17037A9A8S85.JOSE@olis.lib.ox.ac.uk> Organization: Libraries Automation Service Date: Tue, 20 Sep 94 12:03:52 BST Lines: 12 I am running FreeBSD 1.1 on an ISA machine with 32Mb of RAM. The current 325Mb IDE drive is getting very full so I was thinking of installing a SCSI disk. I understand that ISA SCSI controllers have problems when used in machines with more than 16Mb of RAM. Is this true for all ISA SCSI controllers? I have been told that more recent versions of FreeBSD have a fix for this problem in the form of 'bounce' buffers. Can somebody tell me what version of FreeBSD has this? Another possibility is to get a large 540Mb or 1Gb IDE drive. Would FreeBSD support IDE drives of this size? Many thanks for you help.