Re: dma on aha152x

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From: Terry McHugh
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 00:00

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I'm also wondering about this.  If anyone has an answer, could you e-mail 
me as well?
TIA!
Tom McHugh <tom@opus.cais.com>

Loon (i942299@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au) wrote:
: just wondering which would be faster (in terms of thruput and cpu load)
: with an adaptec 152x card, dma of pio under linux?

: logically, dma should be more gentle to cpu load than pio but what about
: actual data thruput?

: the doc's say that it only supports dma channel 0 (which is 8 bit?)
: but the hardware seems to support channel's 5,6 and maybe 7, or
: something like that...

: anyone tried it?

: if you could mail me a copy of any reply to this i would be very grateful
: the turnover on these newsgroups is so high it is real easy to miss :)

: thanks

: james
: --
: LOON

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Subject: Re: dma on aha152x
Date: 1995/09/13
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