Re: looking for souping hardware

[rubywand@aol.com (RUBYWAND)]

In article <199165124wnr@klatch.demon.co.uk>, John Le Febvre
<John@klatch.demon.co.uk> writes:

>>      On a Zip/gs plus RamFAST ROM-01 machine, do you get full DMA
access
>> to all 8MB?
>
>The (ahem) documentation that came with the card (a single piece of
paper)
>states something along the lines of (and I'm paraphrasing here) :-
>
>"You don't need to worry about DMA access with this card ....

     Good point! Certainly, it is true that, once one buys the card,
worrying about DMA access will minimally affect the probability that it
will occur.


> it will do DMA when it needs to and won't when it doesn't."
>

     A firm guarantee. Even so, one wonders just how the card decides that
it "needs" to go along with a DMA request. Suppose you add another 4MB and
the card feels that DMA to the new RAM is not really beneficial because it
would only encourage sloppy programming; and because, in any case, the
user is not worried about DMA. 


 


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