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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au!aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!transfer.stratus.com!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: What SCSI card for 32meg P560? Date: Fri, 18 Mar 94 23:17:48 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 15 Message-ID: <Bu7MgNU.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <MARK.878.2D88ABD9@novell.business.uwo.ca> <1994Mar18.040251.23335@resonex.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1f.delphi.com X-To: Zenon Fortuna <zenon@resonex.com> Zenon Fortuna <zenon@resonex.com> writes: >I have a P5-66 with 32MB and Adaptec 1542C. I am running Linux (SLS 1.03 still) >and MS-DOS 6.2. In principle there are no problems with HD and DAT drive >controlled by this card. Linux is using bounce buffers that we plan to support in the next (1.2) release (I hope), but for now on FreeBSD and NetBSD you need to be using a bus mastering controller that supports the more capable EISA or VESA buses. A good example of one is the Buslogic EISA controllers. (It is more efficient to do so anyway -- even though bounce buffers do not affect performance much, they do slow down system performance measurably.) We John dyson@implode.root.com