Pigeon, Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz. Thanks, Ric
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:48:21PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > DMA stands for Direct Memory Access. It means that data is transferred > directly between the drive and memory without the involvement of the > processor. > > The alternative is PIO - Programmed I/O or something - in which (a) > the processor transfers the data to/from the drive, and (b) it does so > over the I/O bus, which runs at around 11MHz for historical reasons. > Hence, slow. > > The common problem with DMA is that VIA chipsets, which are > distressingly common, have DMA bugs. It works OK on my machine, but > a lot of people have had problems. What chipset / MB have you got? > > Pigeon > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
