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- From: it1@ra.msstate.edu (Tim Tsai)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: Hard Disk Interrupts?
- Message-ID: <it1.714365667@Isis.MsState.Edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 02:54:27 GMT
- References: <1992Jul26.150420.3389@rock.concert.net> <it1.712189719@Isis.MsState.Edu> <1992Jul27.004154.18282@mcshh.Hanse.DE> <1992Aug10.163427.26614@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Organization: Mississippi State University
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- shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul27.004154.18282@mcshh.Hanse.DE> chk@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Christian Kuhtz) writes:
- >>how is it with RLL/MFM controllers and ESDI ? Same behaviour ?
-
- >Christian,
-
- >I have not noticed any problem with comm interrupts being blocked too
- >long with neither UltraStore 12f nor WD1007A-WA2 ESDI controllers.
-
- I have tried an Ultrastor 14F and was unable to transfer at
- high speeds (the 14F was holding the dma channel too long).
- This probably depends on the motherboard, BIOS, etc though.
-
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