I'd be suprised if you can measure it. The real reason for the IDE unmasking
is that a few very old controllers choked when they didnt get a continual
bitstream for the entire IDE transfer. Basically instead of blocking while
the interrupt service routine caused a delay they seemed to carry on making
up bytes for themselves
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