I wonder how you define broken, since I'm running two BT445S cards in 
in production NetBSD machines with 32MB of memory with NetBSD which dates
back to 1993.  They're reliable, use all of their memory, and, although I'm
aware of other faults with the BT445S, that is not one of the faults I
would attribute to the card.

Could you be a little more specific?

Just curious
-Brian

On Nov 11,  6:07pm, "Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
} Subject: Re: DMA beyond end of ISA with other scsi cards?
} >On Sun, 10 Nov 1996 10:47:21 -0800 
} > "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> wrote:
} >
} > > >The problem applies to any busmastering ISA device.
} > > 
} > > And some broken VLB and EISA cards too. The 14F is a VLB card, right?
} >
} >I don't know about VLB, but the problem does not apply to EISA, since
} >EISA has 32-bits of address.  If there'd been a problem with EISA,
} >then the previous cvs.netbsd.org would have never worked :-)
} 
} Did you miss the "broken" in my comment?  VLB and EISA should not have the
} problem, but some cards and/or motherboard chipsets, do.  Once such
} example is the bt445S.
} 
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