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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2 swap devices: does it make sense?
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 13:47:53 GMT
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Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: Now, theoretically, with a true EIDE hard drive, controller, *and* a
: fully capable driver, you could get asynchronous bus-master I/O like
: with SCSI, but I don't think there are any really good drivers like
: this available yet (are there?). And, this does mean you have to have
: a *decent* EIDE controller that can do DMA by itself.
i think linux (1.3.xx) supports eide and dma for the triton chipset
t
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