Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 18 Jan 1997 02:33:02 +0000 (GMT) | From | Philip Blundell <> | Subject | Re: Little Lance Patch & Cyrix P150+ |
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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Jay Thorne wrote:
> >The bus mastering gets locked up. The other symptoms are even worse. If > >some boards go into power save during a transmit the lance may jam the > >network. > > > > So, It follows then that the lance cards are kind of _NOT_RECOMMENDED_ in > > a) APM - using systems > b) Cyrix using systems > c) Powerful systems in general, since as you say, it locks up bus > mastering.
I think that (c) is wrong -- the problem is that the Cyrix chip locks out bus masters when it's in suspend mode, not that the LANCE is having trouble with bus mastering per se.
P.
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