Re: IDE interrupt masking and serial ports (was Re: Lockout during

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Wed, 18 Nov 1998 00:13:36 +0000

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"Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" wrote:
...
> Dumping PPP packets in the default configuration is just a really *bad*
> thing to impress users with. If unmask irq and dma are going to be
> disabled by default, then the driver should only transfer 1 sector or do
> whatever is *necessary* to ensure that irq latency isn't as ridiculous as
> it is presently.

The default is to transfer a single sector per-interrupt,
UNLESS the user has requested otherwise by enabling
"BLOCK MODE" (multi-sector mode) in the BIOS.

-- mlord@pobox.com

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