Re: What's a DMA error?

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From: John Naismith
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article: <817920853snz@musicman.demon.co.uk>  Scott Mordecai 
<scott@musicman.demon.co.uk> writes:

> So, that is this DMA error?  As I've swapped everything but the
> motherboard I guess its something on there, but I really don't want to send
> it back from whence it came - Eclipse in Coventry - because their serviec
> is absolutely shit....

Sorry, but it's your m/b. If the floppy controller is implemented on the m/b 
then there is a problem with that or the DMA chip. Do you have anything else 
that uses DMA? Does it work? If it doesn't then it's new/replacement m/b time. 
If it does then you could try looking to see if you could disable the onboard 
floppy controller - if you can then buy a cheap I/O card and run the floppy from 
that (remembering to disable parallel/serial ports & IDE on the card).

-- 
John Naismith

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