What's a DMA error?

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From: Scott Mordecai
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 1995 00:00

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I'm having many problems with my floppy drive at the moment.  I get read
errors, write errors, and its very frustrating.

I have tried a different floppy drive & interface cable.  The floppy
controlled is built onto the m/board, coulnd't find a way to disable it,
tried a different floppy controller anyway, but still errors.

I've run CheckIt over it: while doing randon reads/writes, it is reporting
a DMA error (never whilst reading.writing the same disk track).

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....

Ideas anyone?

CHeers,
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