Subject: Re: 1.1 386 Hardware
To: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <us3rmc::michaelv@HeadCandy.com>
From: Mark Garrett <mark@nonull.sno.dec.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/08/1995 09:02:09
> >Will the
> >problem affect PCI DMA Bus Mastering products?
> 
> PCI is a 32-bit (addressing) bus.

	I thought PCI was 64bit as well ?
> >It seems absolutely TERRIBLE that bounce buffer support
> >won't make it into 1.1.  It really needs to be there.
> 
> It has never been a priority for the NetBSD crowd because most serious
> NetBSDers bought hardware good enough that a software hack wasn't
> necessary.  If you buy good hardware, you don't need the hack.
> 
> That said, it would be really nice if this would finally get fixed.
> Not everyone can afford to buy hardware to suit their software.

	I think thats fair enough, If you can afford to buy more than 
16Meg of memory then you probably can afford to buy the right controllers.
I only have 12M so my aha1542-CF has never been a problem.


	Cheers
		Mark :)

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