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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!fdn.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!ensta!ensta.fr!bouyer From: bouyer@ensta.fr (Manuel Bouyer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: drivers for NCR53c810 and 3com 509... Date: 15 Jan 1995 12:47:01 GMT Organization: Techniques Avancees, Paris Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <3fb5g5$7dd@ici-paris.ensta.fr> References: <ccs.790159245@ctdnet> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsdtest.ensta.fr In article <ccs.790159245@ctdnet>, ccs@ctdnet.acns.nwu.edu (CHRISTOPHER CSANADY) writes: > just curious, but which OS (netbsd or freebsd) has better > drivers for these boards? the 3com is an ISA card, and > i have 32 meg of ram... i have heard that freebsd implements > bounce buffers to get around this, but how about netbsd? > The drivers of the two OS for theses boards are really close, and i don't think that there is any differences for the user. NetBSD doesn't implement bounce buffers, but the problem of more than 16 meg of ram is only (i think) for isa scsi adapters. I have 32 meg of ram on my pentium, an i use a NE2000 and a 3c509 (both isa) whithout any problems. -- Manuel Bouyer, Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancees, Paris email: bouyer@ensta.fr --