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From: csirmaz@porthos.rutgers.edu (Laszlo Csirmaz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: VGA problems
Message-ID: <Nov.7.21.58.42.1989.4306@porthos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 89 02:58:43 GMT
References: <2256@draken.nada.kth.se>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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In article <2256@draken.nada.kth.se> d86-tpl@nada.kth.se (Tomas Prybil) writes:

> I'm trying to write a piece of code that would dump a VGA (640*480) 
> picture ...
> I thought that it would be possible to set up a pointer to the adress
> and then write from the starting adress + 64k out to disk....
> 

A question to the wizards of the network: 
   Can I give a VGA memory pointer directly to the hard disk controller 
to copy from (or to) say, 64k bytes? And do the DMA transfer work
perfectly in the VGA display memory, too?

Please send mails to me:

			Laci