Subject: Re: aha0: DMA beyond end of ISA
To: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/29/1995 22:32:12
Quoting Curt Sampson,
> Yesterday I reported here that under 1.1 I was getting "aha0: DMA
> beyond end of ISA" messages on a machine with an AHA1542CF and only
> 16MB of RAM. I also indicated that this, along with a lot of other
> errors, seemed to go away when I pulled the EIDE/floppy/IO board.
> Well, all the other errors went away, but it appears that this one
> didn't.
Make sure that the BIOS is not remapping any memory. Some BIOSs have a
'memory relocation' option which gains you 384K, but in your case
it might be mapped to >16Mb addresses. There have been reports about
such a problem in the past.
- Frank