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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!Utrecht.NL.net!news.iaf.nl!news.es.iaf.nl!yedi!wilko From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Subject: Re: FBSD and EISA machines Organization: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands Message-ID: <DyG6vD.8I3@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <324ac5e5.4422121@news.tiac.net> <52g97s$4hh@polaris.eurocontrol.fr> Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 14:57:13 GMT Lines: 23 Ollivier.Robert@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) writes: > [courtesy cc of this posting sent to cited author via email] >In article <324ac5e5.4422121@news.tiac.net>, >Margaret Tarbet <tarbet@swaa.com> wrote: >> maybe it was only a contention, that FBSD doesn't really take >> advantage of EISA address space; that anything over 16Mb >> is just as useless as under DOS. I wish i could go back and >I own an 486DX4/100 EISA machine with two EISA cards, a Buslogic BT-747S >and an Adaptec 1740A since 1993. FreeBSD does use EISA specific address >space and don't require bounce buffers for EISA, unless you have an early >broken motherboard. I have 32 MB of memory and I can guarantee that all of >them are used... My EISA box with Adaptec works just fine with 2.1.5R and has done so for release < 2.1.5 also. The remark about > 16Mb is bogus Wilko