Subject: Re: DMA beyond end of ISA with other scsi cards?
To: Rob Windsor <windsor@pobox.com>
From: Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/1996 09:51:33
>I have a bt757C, which typically fits the "broken EISA" category since it
>looks a lot like an ISA card at the driver level (hence the delay for
>real eisa glue for bt0). Can't speak authoratatively on the mobo chipset,
>it's a Micronics PCI/EISA 486 job (rare, yes, and the PCI sux on it).
No it doesn't -- the BusLogic BT7xx cards are in no way shape or form
broken EISA cards. They are perfectly functional EISA cards. Sure
they have the weird ISA I/O address, but the card *can* still be
identified at its EISA address.
>Anyway, with 64M of mem, I haven't seen a DMA problem.
That's because you have a working EISA motherboard. If 17MB works for
you, any EISA addressable range should work for you. (I. e. you
wouldn't get 32MB, and nothing higher -- it should either be all or
nothing.)
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