No breakage. What I have noticed is that a CD-ROM drive becomes unreliable in reading. It works sometimes, other times not. Can't tell that the contents of the drive has changed. Or stops working. With storage mediums that you write to, like hard drives, it will begin to scramble it, until you are not able to use it. I have not seen any drives actually harmed. I ended up having to start over again in loading Windows.
I tend to forget as much as I remember anymore, so when Tom Brinkman mentioned the problem was actually stemming from the motherboard's chipset, I remembered reading about that a long time ago. If you are using an older motherboard, especially one that happens to be a cheap brand, there is a chance that applying DMA witll cause a Read-Only device to not work properly or a hard drive to scramble its data. You need to keep in mind that I still use a lot of old equipment and therefore am more sensitive to these issues than those who are working with equipment less than a few years old. I am using EPOX, MicroStar and some VxPro boards, that have not been avaiable for years. The same goes for my peripheral cards and stuff. I have too many computers, and not the wallet to justfy replacing everything I own every few years to "keep up with the Jones'." I agree with what has been said by many here that there shouldn't be any problems with today's equipment using DMA. My question is..."How many users throughout the world are trying to use Mandrake Linux on an older box that may have problems activating DMA?" I'll take some heat and good-natured debate over this if someone takes my advice and backs up their data first before taking the plunge on old equipment, knowing that it could be a problem. :-) T ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Richard Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Burning frustration Technoslick wrote: > If turning DMA on works, and you are satisfied --- use it! > > T :-) > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* gikoreno <mailto:gikoreno@;excite.com> > *To:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:BAGSOFCHOICE@;oldtolley.fsnet.co.uk> ; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:newbie@;linux-mandrake.com> > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:12 AM > *Subject:* Re: [newbie] Burning frustration > > Hey John, > > > It turned out the reason why it wasn't burning at a decent speed was > DMA related. I turned DMA on as per the other posts and it worked. > Knowing how people warn on the reliability of CD-ROMS when coupled > with DMA, I am not convinced it's the best idea (will corruption > follow?), but the performance of the system definitely went > tremendously up. > So I guess I'll figure it out soon. > Thanks! > > gikoreno > As a matter of interest, when it goes wrong using DMA, what is the result, I mean , is it just data loss or something, or is there permanent hardware breakage. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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