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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does the BusLogic 545S working with FreeBSD? Date: 5 Feb 1994 19:29:11 GMT Organization: Montana State University - Bozeman MT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2j0s27$6gt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <2irngp$4rk@nigel.msen.com> <2is8cf$q66@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2iugod$ge@homer.cs.mcgill.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu Keywords: BusLogic, SCSI, FreeBSD In article <2iugod$ge@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>, Marc WANDSCHNEIDER <storm@cs.mcgill.ca> wrote: >In article <2is8cf$q66@pdq.coe.montana.edu>, >Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote: >>In article <2irngp$4rk@nigel.msen.com>, >> >>First of all, it's not an Adaptec problem that you can only use <= 16MB >>or RAM, it's an ISA bus problem. > it is worth noting that the bus logic bt445s -will- let you > getaround the problem---it is a vlb controller. Right, it's the ISA bus with the problem. Local Bus cards don't have the same problems because it's 32bit bus, not 24 bit bus. (There are other problems with VLB controller cards, but in general they outperfrom their ISA counterparts) Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | Graduating May '94 with a BS in EE home #: (406) 586-0579 | - looking for work in CS/EE field.