Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!marque!lakesys!davef From: davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Disk IO under SCO Message-ID: <1049@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 6 Sep 89 12:23:55 GMT Reply-To: davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske) Distribution: comp.unix.xenix Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 8 I'm not certain that I understand all of the rationale for the way in which SCO handles disk IO. For example, they avoid DMA in favor of program control. Does anyone have any information on this? Thanks. DF