> The 1542 worked well in old ISA/VESA Boards, worked not in 486 PCI
 > boards and not or very unreliable in 586 boards. No problems with a
 > NCR / Symbios / LSI 53C810 based no-name SCSI adapter. I think the
 > problems are a result of using a ISA Busmaster in a PCI system.

My home K6-2 system has a 1542CF, and it insisted that DMA channel 1
be reserved in the bios PnP "legacy" settings, despite DMA 6 being
used by the card.

-- 
Chris Baird,, <cjb@brushtail.apana.org.au>