From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon May 26 11:55:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA04935 for hardware-outgoing; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:55:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cdsnet.net (mail.cdsnet.net [204.118.244.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA04929; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:55:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shasta.altavista-software.com (Cust101.Max3.Boston.MA.MS.UU.NET [153.35.70.229]) by mail.cdsnet.net (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA13453; Mon, 26 May 1997 11:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970526145406.006d0124@ranier.altavista-software.com> X-Sender: 3ampop@ranier.altavista-software.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.1 (32) Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 14:54:06 -0400 To: Stefan Esser From: Matt Thomas Subject: Re: NCR SCSI + 100TX Ethernet chip Cc: scsi@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19970526183327.13556@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> References: <3.0.1.32.19970526113205.00715fc4@ranier.altavista-software.com> <19970524124625.07596@keltia.freenix.fr> <19970524102943.GO37893@uriah.heep.sax.de> <19970524124625.07596@keltia.freenix.fr> <3.0.1.32.19970526113205.00715fc4@ranier.altavista-software.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 06:33 PM 5/26/97 +0200, Stefan Esser wrote: >I had only seen the 53c885 announcemt, but wasn't aware of any >cards that use that chip. The combination of SCSI and Ethernet >on one PCI card is most interesting, since there are just to few >slots, always :) The eval cards with it should be out next month. I've been able (I think) to get one reserved to me. >Does the Ethernet chip in the 885 share the problem of the DEC >Ethernet chips, that requires copying of received packets (due >to alignment constraints in the DMA engine, if I understand the >problem correctly) ? No idea. I'm waiting for the programming info to show up. I'm hoping it doesn't. -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message