Re: DMA past and present

Hannu Savolainen (hannu@voxware.pp.fi)
Mon, 17 Jun 1996 21:59:11 +0300 (EET DST)


On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Aaron Ucko wrote:

> >other than PAS16). Finally some (VLB) motherboards are not able to do DMA
> >reliably at all (I had this kind of MB couple of years ago).
>
> Aha! That must be why my sound card sometimes has problems (particularly
> under MSDOG; I've never seen the problems with USS Lite, but OTOH I don't
Interestingly enough DMA hardware problems don't necessarily show up with
MSDOG or Windogs but they are very disturbing with Linux. Linux makes it
possible to have several things running simultaneously which rarely
happens with DOS/Win. However if there are random resets or complete
lockups under DOS, there is propably something wrong on your hardware.

Best regards,

Hannu
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