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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Drivers: which ones use DMA? Date: 21 Nov 1993 13:36:14 +0100 Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2cnnbu$mcl@gwen.fwi.uva.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: gwen.fwi.uva.nl Keywords: DMA, ISA 16 Mb limit Hello, While trying to find a good configuration for a machine to run *BSD on, keep on stumbling on the ISA 16Mb limit for DMA. Unfortunately, the budget to buy the machine is very limited, so EISA might not be possible :( That's why I am wondering: how many device drivers out there use DMA, and will go astray on an ISA machine with mem > 16 Mb? Also: does VLB have any problems with the 16 Mb limit in an ISA machine? Drivers I am interested in are harddisk drivers (any kind), ethernet card drivers and tape drives. Thanks in advance, Frank -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | I am not sure what a .signature is for, but my mom told me to make one. | | Frank van der Linden, vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+