Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DMA controller chip error
Keywords: Fastback, DMA
Message-ID: <1644@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 20:16:43 GMT
References: <941@ac.dal.ca>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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  Two comments: first, the error in the DMA chip is probably real, and
second, the speed of the backup is effected more by the i/o speed than
cpu. Now if you want to run using compression you will have a
performance hit, but if you just want to get the backup written, the
slow mode of the cpu probably won't hurt.

  I've seen this before.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon