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- From: Jason Neus
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Picasso and graphic garbage
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 01:37:50 GMT
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- In article <4heve5$ifk@nyheter.chalmers.se> d1joe@dtek.chalmers.se (Jonas Ekstr|m) writes:
- <SNIP!>
- >
- > I've heard about this Guru-ROM, it replaces the ROM from GVP on the
- > Combo, right? Is it expensive?
- > Are there other benefits? What made you buy it, the Picasso trouble
- > or something else?
- >
- > I suppose the Guru-ROM is needed for the NODMA, the new GVPSCSICTRL alone
- > isn't enough, is it?
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- You can turn off DMA transfers with the regular GVP rom. From ExpertPrep
- set the mask to 0x00FFFFFE, this disables DMA transfers. Of course, this
- is a little bit more permanent than using a command line setup. But, if you
- think its interfering with workbench, you should make it permanent, not put
- it in the startup (my opinion).
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- | Jason.D.Neus@UWRF.EDU Amiga 2000 w/GVP SCSI/68030 |
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