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- From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura)
- Subject: Re: Loosing incoming serial characters [summary]
- Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 18:01:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <BuJ3Ep.77w@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
- References: <JOCHEN.92Sep5145619@busybit.mrz.sub.org>
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- In <JOCHEN.92Sep5145619@busybit.mrz.sub.org> jochen@busybit.mrz.sub.org (Jochen Fahrner) writes:
- > My floppy is slow and sometimes I get floppy I/O-errors when
- > there is activity on the hard disk.
- > I have SCSI-disks with busmaster dma hostadapter (like adaptec 1542)
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- That could easily be a defect in the mainboard design, that causes two
- or more DMA channels running at the same time to foul up the
- transfers. Solution: buy a quality board or try diddling DMAEXCL.
-
- --
- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org
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- ISO? Nicht immer, aber immer M-vfter.
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