Re: Soundblaster getting 2 DMA channels?

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 06:03:19 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Eric B. Mitchell wrote:

> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 13:01:07 -0400
> From: "Eric B. Mitchell" <emitchell@altaira.com>
> To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@ican.net>
> Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: Soundblaster getting 2 DMA channels?
>
> Mike A. Harris wrote:
> >
> > Jul 26 08:18:57 red kernel: <Sound Blaster 16 (4.5)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
> > Jul 26 08:18:57 red kernel: <Sound Blaster 16> at 0x330 irq 5 dma 0
> >
> > I don't understand this: Looks like my SB16 is getting 2 DMA
> > channels. This can't be right can it?
>
> I believe the SB's use one dma channel for 8 bit sound,
> and another for 16 bit sound.

That covers DMA 1 and 5 ok, but what about DMA 0? There are 3
DMA's used, not 2. I mistakingly typed 2.

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