Re: [question]- DMA

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:31:43PM -0300, haskellboy@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> can DMA copy from RAM to hard disk?

yes

> if yes, the kernel uses DMA to copy from disk to disk?

no, the disk hardware that (almost all) linux hardware uses doesn't
allow this easily
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