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To: john@starfire.mn.org
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Subject: Re: bounce buffers and ethernet controllers 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 03 Oct 1996 09:25:42 -0700
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>I'm about to upgrade to a PCI system and put 32M of RAM in it.  The
>SCSI controller is PCI, but I'll be keeping my ISA ne2000-compatible
>ethernet controller.  Will I need to enable bounce buffers for that?
>I don't think that the ne2000 does DMA, but I thought I'd ask.

   No, you won't need bounce buffers.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project