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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
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Subject: Re: WFJ's talk last night...
Date: 25 Feb 93 15:22:38
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In-reply-to: volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de's message of Thu, 25 Feb 1993 17:24:14 GMT

In article <1993Feb25.172414.6852@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de> volker@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Volker A. Brandt ) writes:
>>        - can use up to 1GB of RAM
>
>Even with my Adaptec 1542B busmaster DMA?  This is my biggest gripe, having
>16 of my 32 MB lying on a shelf gathering dust.

i hate to say it but...

if you want it, why don't you write it?

the fact that you can't address > 16M from your ISA card is a hardware
limitation that can only be gotten around via the use of bounce
buffers, or something similar.

add it to the driver, and it'll probably go in.


chris
who likes EISA... 8-)
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Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

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