Messages in this thread | | | From | "Anthony Barbachan" <> | Subject | Re: UDMA problems | Date | Mon, 4 Jan 1999 04:32:26 -0500 |
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-----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.
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