uh...strange windows?

Subject: uh...strange windows?
Name: ludicrous
Date: 6/9/2001 11:24:13 AM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 138.67.69.229
In Reply to: DMA ?? posted by ran
Message:

what do you mean?

Generally you DO want DMA on if the device supports it. Without, even the best hard drive will be limited to about 5MB/sec data transfer rates (continuous read OR burst access) and CPU utilization will be very high during transfers.