Subject: Re: 1.0 features?
To: Douglas K. Rand <rand@aero.und.nodak.edu>
From: Richard Wackerbarth <ifzd321@mcl.cc.utexas.edu>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 10/27/1994 14:41:52
>** Chris G Demetriou <cgd@alpha.bostic.com> on Wed, 26 Oct 1994 13:37:22 -0400
>** in [Re: 1.0 features? ] writes:
>
>Chris> no, there are no bounce buffers for ISA devices; we've found it
>Chris> very hard to find the time to develop bounce buffers, when we
>Chris> (the developers) will never use or test them.
>
>Maybe this is a stupid question (I ask a lot of them!) but do VLB
>devices fall into the ISA catagory? I've heard that they do, and I've
>got a VLB SCSI controller and a VLB video card with 20 Mbytes of RAM
>on the system. Do I need bounce buffers?

Unless I misunderstand things, EVERYONE with more than 16Meg of ram MUST
have bounce buffers.

This is because even the pci interfaces are currently running in ISA
compatability mode.