Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 18:56:01 +1000 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Buslogic BT542-B problems (Try to abort ...) Message-ID: <199508060856.SAA10918@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199508041656.SAA27450@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Aug 4, 95 06:56:39 pm
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> > 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? It seemed like a good idea at the time ... :-) I've been running a BT542B in AHA-compatible mode for ages but Michael Smith was kind enough to ship me some new firware so that the BT driver would actually recognise it as a BT card (which I thought was a Good Thing). I also thought that the different/extended mailbox stuff (as compared to the AHA driver) might buy some better on-disk performance (which is what I was really after). It wasn't to be :-(. After some drama with microcode revisions that my card simply won't run with, I found that I can't run the bt driver with 20 meg anyway. When I took the extra 4 meg out .. it did run faster but not long enough to identify if this was the driver or just the effect of not using bounce buffers - shortly afterward, I ran into VM panics with the load that this machine carries .. Now I'm back where I started, running in AHA mode <sigh> but with (slightly) newer firmware, michael
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