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- From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
- Subject: another RT card in PC question
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.225757.1202@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:57:57 GMT
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- I'm planning to buy a 486 machine soon, and I'd like to be able to use the
- IBM RT apa16 graphics adapter and monitor in it as a second monitor. The
- apa16 card is memory mapped at addresses D80000 to D9FFFF on the ISA bus;
- this address range is normally used by RAM. Is there any way to get this
- address range to pass through to the ISA bus instead of referencing system
- memory? What if I put the card on an EISA bus? I'm guessing it will
- respond to any address with the low 24 bits in the range D80000 to D9FFFF.
- Is there a way to map some part of memory above 16 MB to pass through onto
- the EISA bus?
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- I haven't said specifically what hardware because I haven't decided yet. If
- this makes a difference (some motherboards can do what I want, some can't)
- I'd like to know.
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- (For PC users wondering how this card worked in the RT: the RT maps the
- entire I/O bus into a 16 MB memory segment which does not overlap RAM. For
- DMA, I/O bus addresses get translated to RAM addresses.)
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- John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
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