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- From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Well, I guess that my A4000 is going back to the dealer...
- Message-ID: <36730@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:28:01 GMT
- References: <1992Oct29.165256.13783@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> <36505@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1992Nov3.160249.376@cranel.com>
- Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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- In article <1992Nov3.160249.376@cranel.com> watters@cranel.com (David Watters) writes:
- >In article <36505@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes:
- >>The A2091 needs new firmware to work correctly. Its problem, shared by most
- >>Zorro II based DMA-driven controllers, is A3000 memory. Apparenly no one in
- >>the device driver writing business, C= included, had considered that possibility
- >>of non-DMA-able memory being the only Fast RAM you get at expansion binding
- >>time.
-
- >If I may bare a little ignorance regarding low level stuff, I have always
- >had trouble understanding what is being said here. Is this implying that
- >the fastmemory within an A3000 is nonDMA able by any device on the bus?
-
- Not quite.
-
- >ie. if I have a ZorroII or ZorroIII sound board being used to grab samples
- >in an A3000/A4000 it can not do DMA to fastram?!?
-
- Zorro II, no, Zorro III, yes. The Zorro II bus, like the PC-AT bus and other
- vintage 16-bit buses, is limited to 24-bit addressing. Anything that's
- outside of the first 16MB on an Amiga can't be addressed by a Zorro II bus
- master. Zorro III supports full 32-bit addressing, a Zorro III device can
- access any 32-bit port anywhere in Amiga memory.
-
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