Subject: Re: Setting up a new server, help with hardware choices
To: Gunnar Helliesen <gunnar@bitcon.no>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/08/1998 13:14:40
On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:

> 1 x 3Com 3C900 Ethernet combo PCI

The driver for this uses PIO, not DMA, but this is probably not a
problem for 10 Mbps mode. For 100 Mbps mode is it very, very
definitely a problem.

cjs

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