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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: EISA & 386bsd? Message-ID: <C3JyHI.EsL@ns1.nodak.edu> From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 04:15:18 GMT Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) References: <1993Mar2.065348.4909@coe.montana.edu> <C3Av8D.39I@ns1.nodak.edu> <731275720rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Lines: 24 rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: )ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) writes: )>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. ) )Does it work with the 1740 in enhanced mode? If so, does 386BSD then )see and use more than 16MB of memory? The 1740 has to be set to standard mode. One of the readme's says that right after boot it goes into enhanced mode. Memory?....What do you mean? -- Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota