From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 5 19:01:39 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA09747 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:01:39 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA09733 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:01:35 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA11236; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 04:01:31 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id EAA12171; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 04:01:27 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA27450; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 18:56:39 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508041656.SAA27450@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Buslogic BT542-B problems (Try to abort ...) To: imb@scgt.oz.au (michael butler) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 18:56:39 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508041213.WAA00480@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> from "michael butler" at Aug 4, 95 10:13:47 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 755 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As michael butler wrote: > > > > 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 Err... the 742 is EISA, and if my memories are correct, the 542 is VLB. Why the heck do you need this driver for ISA? (I'm running a 742A myself.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)