> Paolo Mantegazza wrote: > > Der Herr Hofrat wrote: > > Yours is the first case I step on such a problem with Celerons. > > What about IDE controllers bus mastering DMA ? Can't this be the cause > of big bus locks ? > 260 us sounds a bit much - this would have to show up on many systems - large caches and bus mastering DMA are an issue but I never found more than 80us (flush_all) and DMA has been below that.
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