Re: UDMA problems

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:32:26 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
To: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net>;
linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sunday, January 03, 1999 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: UDMA problems

>Kev wrote:
>...
>> > It's because IDE is cheaper: it's really a sort of early Win-device,
making
>> > the CPU do the work to save on hardware costs.
>
>Duh.. maybe 5-6 years ago that was the case (lack of DMA),
>but not nowadays.
>
>Sure it's cheap and crude, but it doesn't load the CPU.
>--

Besides which it works perfectly well for the vast majority of people.

>mlord@pobox.com
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