From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 25 10:32:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23988 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (root@buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23976 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:32:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA18523 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 10:24:52 GMT Received: from buffnet3.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa13434; 25 Apr 96 13:30 EDT Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 13:30:18 -0400 (EDT) From: steve hovey To: Tony Kimball cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bounce buffers In-Reply-To: <199604250653.BAA01917@compound.Think.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Tony Kimball wrote: > > Under what circumstances are bounce buffers indicated? > Are they not indicated in all systems using >16MB DRAM? > My impression was that all such systems would require > bounce buffers in order to support DMA generally, while > no other systems would require bounce buffers. > I thought they were needed if you have swap on a scsi. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net