From owner-freebsd-hardware Sat Oct 31 11:37:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05688 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:37:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05683 for ; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA14461; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:37:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA27436; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:37:01 -0700 Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 12:37:01 -0700 Message-Id: <199810311937.MAA27436@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: John Polstra Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixing 8- and 16-bit shared memory ISA cards In-Reply-To: <199810311853.KAA22693@austin.polstra.com> References: <199810311853.KAA22693@austin.polstra.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have a question for you old farts who still remember ISA. I'm > trying to turn an old 486 box into an ethernet <-> frame relay router. > It has a 16-bit SMC 8013 card with shared memory, and also an 8-bit > ET Inc. card with shared memory. I have this vague recollection that > you can run into problems with a mix like that in an ISA machine. FWIW, I ran this same setup (literrally!) on my 486 box until recently, using the same model ethernet card and the *same* ET card with no problems. (I'll leave the rest of the questions unanswered since I don't know about them...) nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message