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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.melbpc.org.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!server.arg.sj.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD 2.2.2 (I think) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:26:59 +0100 Message-ID: <33CD1273.237C228A@arg1.demon.co.uk> References: <33CBED47.2E2F@chistech.com> <5qipmg$g4q@plains.NoDak.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 13 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44531 Mark Tinguely wrote: > > The 8216T (also known as the SMC EtherEZ) works best as in IO mapped > mode, not memory mapped mode. You can set this in DOS using the SMC > supplied "ezstart.exe" application. Why do you say this? Conventional wisdom has it that the SMC cards are superior to the otherwise similar NE2000 cards because they can be memory mapped and ISA memory cycles are fundamentally quicker than ISA I/O cycles. Is the EtherEZ different from the other SMC 80xx family cards, or is there some other reason you recommend I/O mapped mode?