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- From: Richard Lavey <richard@startide.demon.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Picasso and graphic garbage
- Date: Sat, 9 Mar 96 18:15:04 GMT
- Organization: Home in Bucks,UK
- Message-ID: <9603091815.AA007cl@startide.demon.co.uk>
- References: <4gsnvu$s23@nyheter.chalmers.se> <54588Ke@babylon.pfm-mainz.de> <4hnndj$h1o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>
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- jn42@ruby-14.UUCP led us to believe
- in <4hnndj$h1o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> that...
-
- > In article <54588Ke@babylon.pfm-mainz.de> rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel) writes:
- > >
- > > The original gvpscsi.device would _always_ perform DMA.
- > > There was _no_ _way_ to disable DMA prior to the Guru ROM.
-
- > Ahem. According to the FaaastPREP 2.0 manual, page 36 -
-
- > Mask -
- > "The default value of 0xFFFFFFFE allows DMA transfers within the
- > extended 16MB address range offered by GVP Series II and G-Force
- > Accelerators. If your system cannot perform DMA access to
- > Extended RAM use the value 0x00FFFFFE, instead"
-
- > Sounds like disabling DMA to me.
-
- Perhaps you should re-read it. This is talking about to DMA to EXTENDED RAM
- on GVP accelerators (i.e. RAM outside the Zorro-2 address range). It
- doesn't say that setting the mask to 0x00FFFFFE disables DMA to Chip RAM or
- Z2 RAM. One wonders what a mask of 0x00000000 would do :-)
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