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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!ra!tantalus.nrl.navy.mil!eric From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Problems with bus masters, ISA, >16MB memory Message-ID: <CECo9t.9on@ra.nrl.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@ra.nrl.navy.mil Organization: Naval Research Laboratory References: <1993Sep29.155751.2394@resonex.com> <CE5tu9.Eo5@veda.is> <1993Oct1.084404.15832@resonex.com> Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 02:01:05 GMT Lines: 14 In article <1993Oct1.084404.15832@resonex.com> michael@resonex.com (Michael Bryan) writes: >Is there any anticipation as to when the SCSI drivers (especially for the >disks) will be using the bounce buffers? It's rather annoying to have to >yank 4MB of perfectly good memory from my system... For what it is worth, linux supports > 16Mb SCSI bus masters. I have 20Mb, and I do not need to pull 4 from it to use my system. -Eric -- "When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a lawyer."