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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD 1.0R] DMA Problems?
Date: 22 Dec 1993 14:37:16 +0100
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rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) writes:
> BTW, are you not using the Adaptec's floppy
> controller? [It would be mighty strange if the 1542 was trashing it's
> own floppy controller's DMA requests ;>]
No, sorry, i'm having an AHA-1540 only:-(
But from what i know, Adaptec's on-board FDC's aren't something special, they
are only there since hard disk adapters used to have an FDC, too. So it wouldn't
surprise me if the SCSI DMA xfers also trashed the floppy DMA:-)
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