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From: jim mckie jmk@pla...
Subject: [9fans] Re: Plan 9 from Bell Labs - Frequently Asked
Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 11:58:31 -0500

	> Does 3C595 work or not?

the 3c595 works if all the updates are applied.
of course, it's an old and discontinued card, replaced by the 3c905.
however, you should be able to find one without too much difficulty.

the 3c905 is a full busmastering card and has some backwards compatibility
with the older 3c5xx series, e.g. it will boot with the current drivers,
but the performance is abysmal because it's really designed to be used
as a busmaster. i have a driver but the there are problems under load which
i can't seem to resolve and i can't get the problems to happen in a test
environment.

--jim