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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!noc.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD platform Date: Fri, 1 Jul 94 09:35:50 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5axRZYe.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <2uacoc$gfi@reuter.cse.ogi.edu> <2ukb2g$r7b@huey.cc.utexas.edu> <Cs19IJ.B07@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> <2uo9ju$12b@reuter.cse.ogi.edu> <2uv8fv$277@crl.crl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1g.delphi.com X-To: Jim Isom <jisom@crl.com> Jim Isom <jisom@crl.com> writes: >ISA boards with bus-mastering controllers have problems with >16M. If >you're building a small work-station, ISA will work. Go EISA otherwise. It is certainly best to plan for your system to efficiently use >16MB like on the EISA , PCI, or VLB buses.. But on FreeBSD, all is not lost, because as of the 1.1.5 release we do properly handle bounce buffering. So, all of you like me stuck with ISA for a while are being properly supported by FreeBSD. John dyson@implode.root.com (FreeBSD core team member)