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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: EISA & 386bsd? Message-ID: <C3Av8D.39I@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: 3 Mar 93 06:26:37 GMT Article-I.D.: ns1.C3Av8D.39I References: <1mul2rINNe0a@manuel.anu.edu.au> <1993Mar2.065348.4909@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 14 Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes: )gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) writes: )>I have just ordered a 486/EISA based system for our site planning )>to use it for 386bsd. I've been told that EISA is entirely upwardly )>compatible with ISA and that MSDOS runs on such systems without )>problems. Will 386bsd run on EISA without problems too? In particular )>will it recognise a 32 Bit Hard Disk Controller? ) )Works fine for me on a DEC 486-50DX EISA box with 2 Adaptec 1740's. Works fine on a Gateway2000 486DX2-66 EISA with one Adaptec 1740. -- Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota