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From: fpm@crash.cts.com (Frank MacLachlan)
Subject: Re: Buslogic 742
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Date: 15 Nov 93 15:18:48 PST
Message-ID: <1993Nov15.151848.28918@crash>
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In article <1993Nov14.163302.26421@csus.edu> rmallory@silicon.csci.csusb.edu (Rob Mallory) writes:
>
>Last I checked, the NetBSD current source tree had what looked to be
>a working (eisa dma/timing) driver for the bt742, as the 0.9 release
>made me uncomfortable having to disable all cpu cache to keep it from
>hanging. I'm sure the 1.0 release of NetBSD promises to remedy the
>situation...
I'm running NetBSD-0.9 on a 486/50 EISA system w/ a BusLogic BT-742A
connected to 3 disk drives, 2 tape drives and a CD-ROM drive w/ nary
a glitch. Both internal and external CPU cache are enabled.
> I'm curious myself on exactly how close to an optimum driver for the
>*BSD's are in their current src-trees (33MB/sec bursting transfer mode?)
I see 2.7 mbyte/sec reading from the raw disk (Seagate ST41651N).
Frank
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