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Article #1228Re: DMA on PC motherboards
From: chiu
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:08
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:08
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In article <1992Dec11.051823.3702@fasttech.com> zeke@fasttech.com (Bohdan Tashchuk) writes: >In <1992Dec8.175242.11901@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu (David Chiu) writes: >>"Most chipsets (and thus MBs) on the market today can barely do bus mastering >> properly (for ISA based machines)... Opti *HAD* a good chip set earlier but >> their new chipset isn't better than any other chipsets" >To a first approximation, you get what you pay for. If you buy the cheapest >Tiawanese clone you can find, you deserve to have it fail bus mastering. Ah. But isn't it true that most of the stuff on the market TODAY are cheap Taiwanese clones? >I've been running an Adaptec 1540A in a clone 20 MHz 386 for four years. >It works very reliably. Motherboards from the "first tier" cloners work. Of course, your mother board is based on a chip set at least four years old. Go back and read my post again. I said "TODAY", not four years ago.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!pasteur!alumni!chiu From: chiu@alumni.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: DMA on PC motherboards Message-ID: <1992Dec11.190810.1050@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Summary: READ, not just scan Originator: chiu@alumni Sender: nntp@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (NNTP Poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: alumni.berkeley.edu Organization: University of California Society of Electrical Engineers References: <19801@ksr.com> <1992Dec8.175242.11901@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <1992Dec11.051823.3702@fasttech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:08:10 GMT Lines: 21