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From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: Buslogic BT542-B problems (Try to abort ...)
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 22:13:47 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199508021624.BAA00922@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 3, 95 01:54:35 am
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> > Where did you find a Bt542-B controller??  It thought those beasts were
> > long dead!
 
> Some friends and I bought about ten of them at a swap meet for $20 each.
> They're nothing to write home about, but they run like troopers.

Recent experiments (and despite source-code comments) have led me to
conclude that the BT742 driver does NOT co-operate with the bounce-buffer
scheme in -current on an ISA machine with 20 meg of RAM .. expect a rapidly
corrupted file system .. if it stays up long enough :-(

	michael