🚀 go-pugleaf

chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.051823.3702@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes:
>>In <1992Dec8.175242.11901@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu) writes:
>>>"Most chipsets (and thus MBs) on the market today can barely do bus mastering
>>> properly (for ISA based machines)... Opti *HAD* a good chip set earlier but
>>> their new chipset isn't better than any other chipsets"

>>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.

>Ah. But isn't it true that most of the stuff on the market TODAY are  cheap
>Taiwanese clones?

>Of course, your mother board is based on a chip set at least four years old.
>Go back and read my post again. I said "TODAY", not four years ago.
*----
Would you like to be more specific about your experiences?  The newest
CPU boards that I've seen have all been compatible with the Adaptec 1542B
without any problems, and I use a wide variety of completely generic
boards with various chipsets.  Some of them even have the BIOS chips
soldered in place - a practice I object to, but realistically, probably
increases reliability when the BIOS code is mature.  DMA is built into
most of the LSI chipsets, so it ought to be easy for you to pinpoint
the ones that have problems.



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