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Re: Is Elbox A4000 ATA controller DMA?
« on: September 02, 2003, 11:29:00 PM »
Unfortunatelly, no. I have The latest Elbox Fast ATA 4000 controller in my A4000 setup (the MK2), and it is still not DMA. However, it's a very good product. Gives you an opportunity of using widely available and up to date ATA devices. It is probably on par speed wise with all the most popular SCSI controllers, if you do not mind CPU usage. It also autoboots. I've made a decision of using it over the SCSI 3 controller in my CSPPC, in order to be able to quickly recover to a new device in case lets say a hard drive dies or so. So in a nutshell, in my opinion, although it's not DMA it is very useful as it allows usage of easily obtainable fast and cheap ATA devices.