Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!herald.usask.ca!alberta!aunro!ukma!rex!wuarchive!waikato.ac.nz!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!tower!johnv From: johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz (John Veldthuis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Hardrives and the A3000 Message-ID: <4216.tnews@tower.actrix.gen.nz> Date: 23 Mar 91 01:58:19 GMT References: <1991Mar19.222827.16244@en.ecn.purdue.edu> <17727@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1991Mar20.220547.4677@en.ecn.purdue.edu><20023@cbmvax.commodore.com> Organization: Amiga Virus Extermination Services, NZAmigaUG :). Lines: 13 Quoted from <20023@cbmvax.commodore.com> by daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie): > > - Got your MASK, MaxTransfer, and Memory Type values set up for the > fastest transfers. Can someone please explain how to use the MASK value. The documentation on it is very scimpy. I have an A2620 in my Amiga and I have lockup troubles when DMA'ing to 32 bit memory with my HardFrame Harddisk and want to set the MASK so that the HardFrame only uses the 4 meg of Fast memory starting at $00600000 as buffers -- *** John Veldthuis, NZAmigaUG. johnv@tower.actrix.gen.nz ***