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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:14:28 +0200
From:      Jos Backus <Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The choice of MAXPHYS
Message-ID:  <19990603181428.A23846@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com>
In-Reply-To: <199906031605.KAA93292@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:05:46AM -0600
References:  <19990603172907.A20792@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> <199906031605.KAA93292@panzer.plutotech.com>

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On Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:05:46AM -0600, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> I think the 64K value may have been chosen because cards like the Adaptec
> 1542 can't handle more than that.

That's exactly the card I was thinking about (I used to own one). So I was
close :)

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