John Thompson wrote in a message to Holger Granholm:

 JT> Isn't the AHA-2842 a VLB card? 

Yes,  I use one here.

 JT> If so, it shouldn't suffer the bus-mastering issues that plague 
 JT> ISA cards, since the VLB bus is already a 32-bit bus.

*Some* VLB boards don't support bus-mastering cards,  apparently.

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