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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!zip.eecs.umich.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cc.usu.edu!ivie From: ivie@cc.usu.edu Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: DRQ for wd.c Message-ID: <1994Feb22.093144.11501@cc.usu.edu> Date: 22 Feb 94 09:31:44 MDT References: <2kb77b$so6@explorer.clark.net> Organization: Utah State University Lines: 10 In article <2kb77b$so6@explorer.clark.net>, ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda) writes: > I was under the impression that IDE disks are capable of DMA. Is this true? No. A drive manufacturer is free to build a drive that does DMA, but I don't know of any that do. Problem is that (aside from incompatibility) on an actual, real IBM AT REP INSW is faster than DMA. -- ----------------+------------------------------------------------------ Roger Ivie | Don't think of it as a 'new' computer, think of it as ivie@cc.usu.edu | 'obsolete-ready'