In a message to John Thompson, Roy J. Tellason wrote re: /DBUFF

JT> Isn't the AHA-2842 a VLB card? 
 
RT> 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.
 
RT> *Some* VLB boards don't support bus-mastering cards,  apparently.

Yes, I have a VLB motherboard that doesn't seem to support 
bus-mastering.  But the AHA-2842 doesn't seem to work *at all* in 
that case (personal experience speaking; I have an AHA-2842A 
sitting on the shelf gathering dust...). The ISA/bus-mastering
issue makes memory over 16MB inaccessible, but the system still
works at least.


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