Hi

> 
> > The fastest cards I've been using for NetBSd so far is the WD8013 cards,
> > but since these are ISA cards I was wondering if PCI cards won't handle
> > the bandwidth better. I remember reading somewhere some data on ethernet
> > cards and bus bandwidth and ISA used 46% per card and EISA 15% - since
> > EISA ethernet is not supported PCI comes to mind.
> 
> Uh...  I am using an EISA ethernet card in my machine without any problems.
> It is the 3COM 579, EtherLink III.
> 
Hmm, interesting. All I saw in the -current src tree for EISA was the
ADAPTEC 174x SCSI controller. In what mode it running, ISA emulation?

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