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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Swap help
Message-ID: <1995Oct26.081843.17791@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Organization: BSD User Group Hamburg
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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 11:34:18 GMT
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julianje@msu.edu (Jere Julian) writes:

>First, the rundown:  Intel 486DX33, 20MB RAM, Adaptech 1452CF SCSI Controller,
>2 SCSI disks (0=Maxtor 7345-SCSI 329MB; 1=Quantum LPS270S 258MB)

>When the machine tries using the swap memory I get a string of errors repeating:
>aha0: DMA beyond end of ISA
>sd0: Not queued
>.. changing to sd1 later.  The system then crashes often dumping cores of its
>proceses.
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Please email responses as I am on
>an "expensive" dialup.  

You can't use more than 20 MB RAM with your ISA Adaptec.

FreeBSD has 'Bounce buffers' to solve this problem. That involes one
more copy of the data transferred, don't know who much that affects
performance. 

Martin
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