> At 19:22 +0000 on 31/03/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Now, Question of the day: What other Macs that does have this DMA > >supported and high performance SCSI chipsets besides this IIfx? > > None of them, AFAIK.
Throws up hands and exclaims: "that makes sense!" Very strange for apple to hobble the decent machines like 8500 till busmastering and UDMA became available by default in later Macs which is around G3 era. Big gap there, peecees got there first in mid '94 to '96 with busmastering IDE by default on motherboards. No wonder owners had to run out and buy scsi w/ DMA support controller cards in early times or UDMA IDE cards for their Macs. I find that Mac is very CPU-RAM bound, any help is needed especially with floppy and HD chipsets handled by DMA controllers. Is there a utility to copy ROM to RAM for most Macs including this IIfx? Peecees are by default on quality 386 boards and 486 by default onwards. Would be nice to do this also for video card firmware shadowed to ram. Cheers, Wizard > the pickle -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Vintage Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/vintage.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
