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In article <Bz3yB0.MC8@srgenprp.sr.hp.com>, darrylo@hpsrdmo.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) writes:
|> Bohdan Tashchuk (zeke@fasttech.com) wrote:
|> 
|> > To a first approximation, you get what you pay for. If you buy the cheapest
|> > Tiawanese clone you can find, you deserve to have it fail bus mastering.
|> 
|>      I don't know if using cheap motherboards is the problem, but I
|> agree with the above quote.  I've been using a high-quality (read:
|> expensive) AMI motherboard -- where the ENTIRE motherboard, and not the
|> just BIOS, is made by AMI -- and I haven't had any DMA hardware problems
|> with my Adaptec 1542A.  I have had problems when multiple DMA bus
|> masters try to access the bus (causes memory refresh starvation,
|> resulting in parity errors), but this is a problem with the PC
|> architecture.
|> 
|>      -- Darryl Okahata
|> 	Internet: darrylo@sr.hp.com
|> 
|> DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not
|> constitute the support, opinion or policy of Hewlett-Packard or of the
|> little green men that have been following him all day.

You *do* get what you pay for.  I build systems on the side, and have found,
without exception, that the `PC Chip' chipset is problematical.  All of my
suppliers have also confirmed this, and no longer stock boards with the
PC Chips chipset. 

Motherboards having the AMI bios and either the Chips and Technologies
chipset or the SIS chipset have never given me any problems, and have run
everything I`ve thrown at/on them (hardware of all types, UNIX, OS/2
Version 2.0 standard AND extended versions, Novell, DOS).

Hope this helps.



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