Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 18:11:48 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: rls@kilroy.id.net (Robert Shady) Cc: rls@kilroy.id.net, gestur@islandia.is, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, admin@islandia.is Subject: Re: Majordomo results Message-ID: <199601022311.SAA01361@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199601021745.MAA17691@server.id.net> from "Robert Shady" at Jan 2, 96 12:45:20 pm
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> > It might emulate a 1542, but that would limit you to 16MB without > > bounce buffers or a custom driver since the 1542 programming > > interface is 3 byte addresses. > > This is true, but what's wrong with bounce buffers? I don't remember > seeing that in your original question... ;) Nothing wrong with bounce buffers (especially as a bootstrapping aid since the board will work out of the box), but it seemed like a useful thing to point out that he won't get direct transfers above 16MB. I wouldn't want him to be surprised about those wasted address lines... -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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