Re: UDMA problems

Mark Lord (mlord@pobox.com)
Sun, 03 Jan 1999 13:23:17 -0500

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.

-- 
mlord@pobox.com


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