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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Continued problems with BL445S VLB SCSI card
Date: 2 Mar 94 22:59:53 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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Keywords: BusLogic, 445S, SCSI

In <2l2ept$phl@nigel.msen.com> jbell@max.cybernet.com (J. Shan Bell) writes:

>I have one
>requirement, I have to be able to facilitate more than 16Mb of
>RAM.  As I understand it, all EISA boards suffer from this problem.
>That's why I'm trying to get this VLB card to work.

This is incorrect.  ISA (the "standard" IBM-AT 16-bit bus) will only
support up to 16meg of RAM.  EISA is a 32-bit bus-mastered bus, which
is actually more robust than VLB in many respects.  EISA supports
32-bit addressing the same as VLB does, which means EISA and VLB will
support theoretically up to 4gigabytes of RAM (in practice this is
less because of physical limitations such as number of SIMM sockets
and such things).

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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