Subject: Re: DPWS500/Pyxis bugs, corrupt memory etc.
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/01/2000 10:23:09
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 11:32:34PM -0800, Hal Murray wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I've got an Alpha (PC164/500) using DMA in pciide, and I haven't had
> > any crashes in quite a while, even under a fair amount of abuse.
> 
> I'm pretty sure the PC164 had some extra hardware to work around 
> the Pyxis DMA page crossing bug. 

AFAIK the plain PC164 (not the 164SX or 164LX) doesn't have a Pyxis on it
at all.

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Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"