On Tuesday January 16 07:26, Darrell May wrote:
>
> How about sharing for us newbies how/where to turn DMAon :-) I'd like to
> test this myself and see if there is any improvement to my IDE tape backup
> speeds.
Unfortunately I can't. I have absolutely no experience with IDE tapes.
Michael
On Tuesday January 16 09:45, Darrell May wrote:
> Michael, don't think of it as a tape drive. How would you turn DMAon for a
> hard drive? Same should apply as they are all just /dev/hdx where x =
>
> hda = primary master
> hdb = primary slave
> hdc = secondary master
> hdd = secondary slave
>
>
very much Michael. What a great improvement :-)
Darrell
> -Original Message-
> From: Michael Weinberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:51 AM
> To: Darrell May
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] DMA + IDE ha
