Have you tried bulk transfers with the tulip card?

The one we have appears to work to start with, but bombs after a while with
the (repeated) message. We do an NFS boot with the card. The DHCP works OK,
and it starts to boot, gets fairly far with the boot (->quite a bit of
succesful network traffic via the interface) and then bombs with
"de0: system error: master abort"

Cheers
David


-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Blundell <pb@fountain>
To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
Cc: davem@eastcoast.co.za <davem@eastcoast.co.za>; port-arm32@netbsd.org
<port-arm32@netbsd.org>
Date: Monday, September 27, 1999 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: PCI Bus Mastering, EBSA 285?


>>FYI, I am having similar problems with a CATS system. The EtherExpress
>>could transfer about 64K before locking up. I had to switch to a NE2000
>>clone.
>>
>>The wd driver probe also fails to use DMA.
>
>I've had no problems with DMA on the CATS.  I'm fairly sure the IDE uses
UDMA
>under NetBSD; under Linux both the IDE and a TV capture card definitely
work
>under Linux.  A tulip ethernet card also seems fine with both OSs.
>
>p.
>
>