From: mrhoten@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Rhoten) Subject: Re: Help! Linux on VESA local bus 486DX-33?? Date: 4 Apr 1993 22:57:07 GMT
paul@suite.sw.oz.au (Paul Antoine) writes:
>I'm still battling with the motherboard manufacturer over a problem
>with the Ultrastore 34F SCSI board. The 34F does conform to VESA, but
>uses the full bus-mastering modes. There are rumours that some
>motherboards claiming to be VESA compatible are not capable of
>supporting the bus-mastering.
I recently bought a VESA local bus machine, and noted while shopping
that many motherboard and/or computer vendors indicated in their ad
copy "supports bus mastering cards!" which led me to believe exactly
what you thought, that there are nominal VESA motherboards which don't
support bus mastering.
-matt
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