Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!udel!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Memory Expansion Apple IIgs Message-ID: <15555@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 22 Mar 91 22:13:50 GMT References: <9103221118.AA03241@Informatik.Mathematik.Uni-Mainz.DE> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9 In article <9103221118.AA03241@Informatik.Mathematik.Uni-Mainz.DE> Kapffer@INFORMATIK.MATHEMATIK.UNI-MAINZ.DE writes: >Does that mean that the DMA compatiblity of AE's 6MByte RAM card (attained >by performing its own address decoding) is of no use in combination with >Apple's DMA SCSI card ? No, but it does mean that Apple's High-Speed SCSI Card will not use DMA when transferring data between the SCSI bus and the upper 2MB of your RAM. (That is a rather unlikely case anyway.) The only effect should be somewhat slower SCSI I/O on rare occasions.