Subject: Re: DPWS500/Pyxis bugs, corrupt memory etc.
To: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
From: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 01/31/2000 23:32:34 
> FWIW, I've got an Alpha (PC164/500) using DMA in pciide, and I haven't had
> any crashes in quite a while, even under a fair amount of abuse.

I'm pretty sure the PC164 had some extra hardware to work around 
the Pyxis DMA page crossing bug.