If other ISA cards uses bus mastering, the lance cards
have problem with long latency. My previous ISA lance
card have the same problem with the Qic02 streaming tape.
During a backup I get many lost packets and bus master
arbitration failure, so I buy a new PCI lance card :-)) !
la> On PCI DMA bandwidth is very rarely an issue. I've
la> only seen one report of PCI lance people seeing
la> that message and that was using a frame grabber
la> from hell writing pretty much raw NTSC video onto
la> a disk array.
The PCI lance have a "Latency Register", so we can
tune it with an appropriate value.
Roberto Fichera - email MC3641@mclink.it
Xmeo ver.3.0 Alpha for Linux & Windows