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From: plm@atcmp.nl (Peter Mutsaers)
Subject: Re: HELP: installing netbsd+64mb RAM+adaptec
In-Reply-To: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu's message of Fri, 11 Nov 1994 07:15:27 GMT
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Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 14:37:27 GMT

>> On Fri, 11 Nov 1994 07:15:27 GMT, mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu
>> (Ade Barkah) said:

  AB> An error message immediately appears:

  AB> Labelling disk sd0...sd0:no disk label
  AB> aha: DMA beyond end of ISA
  AB> sd0: not queuedaha0: DMA beyond end of ISA

  AB> etc.

  AB> Eventually the system reboots.

  AB> It appears that somehow DMA is being attempted above
  AB> 16mb. Is there a way to get around this ?

Oh no! Does that *really* mean that NetBSD still has no bounce buffers
for DMA above 16M? I was delighted by the NetBSD 1.0 announcement and
wanted to put it on a second partition next to Linux, but aparently I
won't be able to :-(.
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