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From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: Problems with bus masters, ISA, >16MB memory
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References: <1993Sep29.155751.2394@resonex.com> <CE5tu9.Eo5@veda.is> <1993Oct1.084404.15832@resonex.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1993 02:01:05 GMT
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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


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