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Re: Shocking: RF SCSI slower than HS SCSI???



nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates) writes:

>   Yeah, count me in also. While you're at it, how about turning off
>interrupts while the disk is being accessed? :) If you're worried about
>things, make it an advanced programmer option, fairly well hidden, but
>gives us a bit of a speed upgrade.

  Well, they already _are_ turned off. If you have DMA enabled, _nothing_
can interrupt a DMA transfer.  If you have DMA disabled, interrupts
are turned off anyway.

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