[geeks] IDE question

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
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"On 2003.08.14 16:53 Caleb Shay wrote:
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"> Most likely dma is not turned on for that drive.
"Or it is one of the IDE adapters with broken DMA implementation. (CMD646
"found in Sun U5 and DEC Alpha PWS comes to mind.)

just musing abstractly --

there wouldn't be a drop-in compatible chip that wasn't broken, would
there?
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