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At 04:27 AM 9/04/03, Jameel Akari sent this up the stick:

>On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Wilko Bulte wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 05:31:21PM +0200, Riccardo.Veraldi@fi.infn.it 
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > XP1000G, FreeBSD-5.0 here.
> >
> > > fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller (i82077, NE72065 or clone)> at port
> > > 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
> > > fdc0: interrupting at ISA irq 6
>
>Hmm.. maybe I'm thinking about some other free OS, or a different version,
>but wasn't ISA DMA broken on some Alphas?

OpenBSD can't use ISA DMA.

cheers,
Rob


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