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From: sn@plato.chemietechnik.uni-dortmund.de (sn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Vesa Local Bus 50 MHz IDE controller / 386bsd?
Date: 13 May 1993 15:52:45 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Dortmund, CT, Germany
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I'm going to buy a 50 Mhz Vesa Local Bus Motherboard and I'd like
to know wether 386bsd will work with a Vesa Local Bus IDE controller.
If so, will it be faster, too?
If not, is it likely to be supported in the future?

I'll also be buyin a ELSA Winner 1000 S3-928 card (Local bus).
It has an option to put 1 meg of DRAM onto it to store fonts on
the card locally to speed up text operations. Is this going to
have any effect under 386bsd / XFree86?

Thanks for any answers/personal experiences.

-Sven