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CF cards and DMA
« on: July 12, 2008, 11:50:02 PM »
found this interesting article on slashdot

dunno if it matters much to Amiga IDE ports since most are PIO?
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Re: CF cards and DMA
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2008, 12:00:41 AM »
Doesnt matter for Amiga cos as you say ALL Amiga IDE ports are PIO. (Gayle, Buddha, X-Surf, FastATA etc.)

I designed UDMA capable PATA (CF card) interfaces (Both host and device) and I've never come across this yet. Never had any helpdesk calls either (which I would have expected).

Perhaps if a DMA fails then under windows it falls back to PIO and no-one ever complained?