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- Path: pegasus.PFM-Mainz.de!babylon!rbabel
- From: rbabel@babylon.pfm-mainz.de (Ralph Babel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Picasso and graphic garbage
- Message-ID: <545998D@babylon.pfm-mainz.de>
- Date: 13 Mar 1996 20:49:09 +0100
- References: <4gsnvu$s23@nyheter.chalmers.se> <54588Ke@babylon.pfm-mainz.de>
- <4hnndj$h1o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>
-
- Jason Neus wrote:
-
- > 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 - [...]
-
- "Mask" is a _filesystem_ parameter.
-
- > Sounds like disabling DMA to me.
-
- Sounds like telling the _filesystem_ to perform single-block
- transfers (in whichever way the driver pleases) via a buffer
- of type BufMemType if an I/O region is located outside the
- address range specified by the mask.
-
- For more information, see:
-
- ftp://ftp.pfm-mainz.de/pub/amiga/tomkennedy.lha
-