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Re: SOURCING: IBM PC/AT Controller Using the 8237A DMA Controller

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From: Phil Ngai
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 21:34
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In article <22875@usc.edu> annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) writes:
|I would really appreciate any advice you can offer about how to get
|an IBM PC/AT hard disk controller that either uses DMA or has enough
|internal memory buffering to be immune to the presence of another
|active DMA channel.

The WD1006 series have a track buffer, would that do?

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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: SOURCING:  IBM PC/AT Controller Using the 8237A DMA Controller
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