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From: steve@up.edu (Steve Ward)
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Subject: Re: Anyone using a BusLogic 747S with multiple disk drives ?
Date: 19 Jun 1994 22:25:08 -0700
Organization: School of Engineering, University of Portland, Portland OR
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References: <CrDswJ.7qE@cti-software.nl> <2tl4b0$3e0@rand.org> <2u132p$1t4@u.cc.utah.edu>
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In article <2u132p$1t4@u.cc.utah.edu>,
Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
>In article <2tl4b0$3e0@rand.org> edhall@nntp.rand.org (Ed Hall) writes:
>] : 	5) What kind of system/motherboard are you using
>] 
>]     Nice SuperEISA ver.1
>
>It is (or should be) well known that NiCE EISA motherboards do not
>support bus mastering DMAs in excess of 16M, just like ISA chip sets.

It should be noted that the NiCE Super EISA Rev. 1 DOES USE the SiS
chipset, and does work with the BusLogic 747s driver.

Perhaps other NiCE motherboards have a problem, but I've not run into it
(we use both the SuperEISA and the MiniEISA here).

Steve
-- 
Steve Ward, Jr., System operator
School of Engineering, University of Portland
Portland OR
steve@up.edu