Is >16MB possible on ISA box (ISC 2.2.1)?

john.urban urban at cbnewsl.att.com
Mon May 13 23:44:36 AEST 1991


In article <1991May13.004012.18572 at pegasus.com> richard at pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
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>						I've seen people
>reporting 24 megs and more, in this forum, on ISA bus machines.
>
>So what is the real situation today?  Which 386 ports of Unix will support
>greater than 16 megs on the ISA bus?  (Did the MEMRANGE spec actually
>vaporize with ISC's 2.2, or is it just hiding somewhere else?)

AT&T UNIX System V/386 Release 3.2 Version 2.2 (and higher, ie 3.2 2.3 and 4.0)
support greater than 16 Meg on the ISA bus.  When more than 16 meg is available
it "moves" the DMA which would of occured above 16 meg to below 16 meg so that
the ISA bus (DMA chip) can do the DMA successfully.

Sincerely,

John Ben Urban
att!garage!jbu



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