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- From: gt@prosun.first.gmd.de (Gerd Truschinski)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: DMA Speed For Adaptec 1542B SCSI
- Message-ID: <2619@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:01:22 GMT
- References: <BxL4rr.Grp@sti.com> <1992Nov16.163442.16817@adaptx1.UUCP>
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- In article <1992Nov16.163442.16817@adaptx1.UUCP>, neese@adaptx1.UUCP (Roy Neese) writes:
- |> In article <BxL4rr.Grp@sti.com> westes@sti.com (Will Estes) writes:
- |> > According to my 1542B manual, you can set the default DMA transfer speed
- |> > between 5 and 8 MB/s. What's the fastest that you can safely set this
- |> > to on an ISA machine? In an AMI BIOS, what are the clock/timer settings
- |> > that affect DMA speeds?
- |>
- |> There is no way to know what the fastest DMA setting can be for an ISA
- |> bus based machine. You have to try out the different DMA settings to
- |> find out what the machine will reliably support.
- |> Try moving the jumper to 5.7 and then 6.7 and so on and so forth until
- |> the machine either locaks up or starts acting flaky. You best have a
- |> backup of the data on the hard disk before starting this preocedure.
- |> You can also try using the ROM BIOS test routine located at dc00:9. It
- |> will not be 100%, but it will show catastrophic problems with various
- |> DMA speeds.
- |> This is not a limitation of the 154x adapter, it is a limitation of the
- |> ISA bus, where there is no real control logic for bus masters.
- |> ---
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- Last month I read, that there are boards, wich run with the jumpers set to 10
- on a 486 board.
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- /gT/
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- |>
- |> Roy Neese
- |> Adaptec Senior UNIX/SCSI Software Engineer
- |> UUCP: convex!egsner!adaptex!neese
- |> Inet: neese%adaptex@cirr.com
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