From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 3 9:14:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw-nl3.philips.com (gw-nl3.philips.com [192.68.44.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7561C15415 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (localhost.philips.com [127.0.0.1]) by gw-nl3.philips.com with ESMTP id SAA11815 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:14:07 +0200 (MEST) (envelope-from Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com) Received: from smtprelay-eur1.philips.com(130.139.36.3) by gw-nl3.philips.com via mwrap (4.0a) id xma011810; Thu, 3 Jun 99 18:14:07 +0200 Received: from hal.mpn.cp.philips.com (hal.mpn.cp.philips.com [130.139.64.195]) by smtprelay-nl1.philips.com (8.9.3/8.8.5-1.2.2m-19990317) with SMTP id SAA17754 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:14:07 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (qmail 29141 invoked by uid 666); 3 Jun 1999 16:14:28 -0000 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 18:14:28 +0200 From: Jos Backus To: "Kenneth D. Merry" Cc: Zhihui Zhang , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The choice of MAXPHYS Message-ID: <19990603181428.A23846@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> Reply-To: Jos Backus References: <19990603172907.A20792@hal.mpn.cp.philips.com> <199906031605.KAA93292@panzer.plutotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: <199906031605.KAA93292@panzer.plutotech.com>; from Kenneth D. Merry on Thu, Jun 03, 1999 at 10:05:46AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 :) -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ "Reliability means never _/ _/ _/ having to say you're sorry." _/ _/_/_/ -- D. J. Bernstein _/ _/ _/ _/ Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com _/_/ _/_/_/ use Std::Disclaimer; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message