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Subject: Re: DAC960 in 2.5.38, with new changes
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>>>>> On Mon, 23 Sep 2002 23:31:13 +0200, Daniel Phillips <phillips@arcor.de> said:

  Daniel> Why attempt to write 8 bytes on ia32 when only 4 are needed?

Even on ia32 you'll need 8 bytes if the controller is operated in DAC
mode (which is what you want for a machine with >4GB of memory), no?

	--david