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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1 crashes
Date: 22 Aug 1995 14:54:11 +0200
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Andrew Atrens <atrens@bmerhecc.bnr.ca> wrote:

>   I'm far from being a guru or expert, but I noticed that in
>your kernel file you've commented out the following options line:
>
># options         BOUNCE_BUFFERS
>
>   If you read the LINT config file it makes reference to this
>option as being required on machines with more than 16 MB:
...
>   Since you are running a Pentium with PCI this may not apply to your
>situation, but just the same it wouldn't hurt to try configuring this
>option and rebuild a fresh kernel.

Only required for ISA bus master DMA devices (that are not capable of
driving more than 24 address lines), e.g. an Adaptec 154X.
-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)