Re: Freeze Upon /dev/fd0 Use
Andrzej Krzysztofowicz (ankry@oberon.idk.com.pl)
Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:41:18 +0200 (MET DST)
>
> Really? More than one active DMA at a time just killing the machine
> completely?
>
> The good news is that ISA DMA is broken anyway, and it might just be an
> acceptable option to not even have a "BROKEN_DMA" config option, but
> just unconditionally refusing to allow two concurrent ISA DMA streams.
> The only things I know of that do ISA DMA is the floppy and old sound
> cards, and if that means that the sound skips while accessing the floppy
> I don't know if we really need to worry too much..
>
> Linus
XT hard disks also use ISA DMA. But they are rather not very popular now...
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