Re: 2.1.111: IDE DMA disabled?

rodgerd@ihug.co.nz
Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:32:59 +1200


On Sun, Jul 26, 1998 at 07:51:21PM +0000, Andrew Derrick Balsa wrote:

> I have yet to come across a Win 3.11/DOS IDE (U)DMA driver, please point
> me to one.

Two years ago, all Digital Pentium systems shipped with the CDM640 chipset;
they all came with a DMA driver fod DOS.

It caused no end of problems (especially with Digital's Pathworks and PCI
Ethernet devices), and I remember it well.

-- 
Rodger Donaldson		rodgerd@ihug.co.nz
The Pinguin Patrol
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intellectual equivalent of being a galley slave?'"  
		--Larry Smith, in comp.os.linux.misc

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