On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Dave McConnell wrote:

> Hello Again
> 
> I have been having many problems with NetBSD on EBSA 285.
> 
> I am strongly suspecting that there may be problems with PCI Bus mastering
> devices which access system RAM. I have observed problems with ethernet
> cards (Intel Etherexpress 82559 and 82558 and using Digital 21140).
> 
> I'm using the DEC (now Intel) PCI development backplane. PCI Bus arbitration
> is being handled by the backplane as per default.
> 
> Are there known problems with this hardware?
Hi,
  Not that I know of. Bus mastering works find on my EBSA285 (running
NetBSD) with Promise Ultra/33 IDE, Qlogic ISP1040 SCSI and DEC 21140
ethernet. In the past I have also used Adaptec 2940 SCSI and DEV 21143.

Cheers,
				Mark