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>>Didn't he say it was a VL card?  That means that the CPU can't do
>>anything anyway, since when the disk controller has the local bus the
>>CPU can't talk to memory or anything anyway.  This is why I don't see
>>VL as a real win for anything except perhaps video; it will give you
>>great burst mode numbers, but it impacts overall system performance to
>>do that.  
>
>That doesn't make any sense. The only way to minimize the hit the CPU
>takes when doing DMA is to make the DMA go as fast as possible, which is
>what VLBus does. There's no free lunch. :)
>
I'm no expert.(or even novice!) but is it possible for the CPU to do other
work while the hd controller does DMA on an EISA machine?  If so, this is
what the original poster might have been comparing VL-Bus too.

Thanks.