Subject: Re: DMA beyond end of ISA with other scsi cards?
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@plexus.com>
From: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/12/1996 12:07:28
>On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Data point:  I have a BT-445S in my VLB system (Micronics JX-30GC) that
>has never once complained about my having 24MB of RAM.
>
>--scott

The problem with the 445S is not easily repeatable.  According to Peter Wemm,
the card will occassionally corrupt data that goes above 16meg.  He probably
knows more details than I about this though (peter@FreeBSD.org).

--
Justin T. Gibbs
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