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- From: bjheyboer@space.honeywell.com (Brian Heyboer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000: 32-bit mem appears to be 24-bit?
- Date: 7 Feb 1996 17:21:05 GMT
- Organization: Honeywell Space Systems
- Distribution: world
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- References: <4em5jb$8es@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca> <4f5f0q$404@erinews.ericsson.se>
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- In article <4f5f0q$404@erinews.ericsson.se> etxzayl@cate1.ericsson.se (Johan
- Zeylon IN/SA/BIB) writes:
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- >In article 8es@hobbes.compusult.nf.ca, mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca (Mark Worden) writes:
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- >>I have an A3000/030/25mhz... and there's a SupraRAM card
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- >>Anyway, I fired up SysInfo v3.15, and it lists the following concerning
- >>the RAM:
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- >> 3) For the SupraRAM 8 megs, "FAST RAM PUBLIC 24BitDMA"
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- >>What does the "...PUBLIC 24BitDMA" mean? Is the memory not 32-bit
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- >Easy!
- >24BitDMA means that the RAM can be accessed with the Amiga native DMA.
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- Remainder of excellent explanation of 24-bit DMA space deleted.
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- But there is more. This looks like he has a Zorro-II SupraRAM card in the
- 3000. That means it's 16-bit RAM.
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- As for the original posters question as to why: Because you have a 16-bit
- Zorro-II board in a 32-bit Zorro-III machine.
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