[rescue] Vesa Local Bus video cards

Steve Sandau ssandau at bath.tmac.com
Mon Mar 31 20:48:59 CST 2003


>    Boca Research made a VLB Ethernet board. It seems to be quite nice,
> except that they never made drivers for it past WfW. It's compatible
> with the NE1500T and NE2100 but for one fatal difference: it doesn't
> use DMA. The drivers for the NE cards expect to use DMA. The result
> is that you can generally get a ping or two out and back, just enough
> to give you the feeling that it's working, and then it falls over
> and goes boom.

We had a 486 Netware 3.1 server with a VLB SCSI and VLB ethernet. We'd probably still be using it if Netware 3 ran over IP instead of IPX...

Steve


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