On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:33:31 -0500
"Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> HI Miark. My question is: Why? Everyone one knows that you really need DMA 
> turned on for these devices, so why does Dolphin turn it off?

I didn't ask. I speculate it was to improve compatibility, even at the 
expense of performance. Or it may have been an oversight. I dunno. It
doesn't make much sense either way.
 
> and...what about -true- SCSI devices, not emulated. Thats what I've got. 
> (I'm still running 8.2 - 9.0 hopefully is on its way).

I don't know, but if SCSI drives do have DMA disabled, it doesn't take
but a minute to fix with hdparm.

Miark

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