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From: usenet@carssdf.UUCP (John Watson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Simultaneous DMA
Summary: check DMA Chip
Message-ID: <297@carssdf.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 91 22:37:06 GMT
References: <2247@pdxgate.UUCP>
Organization: C.A.R.S.,Middlesex,NJ
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In article <2247@pdxgate.UUCP>, brians@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Brian Smith) writes:
> The manual for Interactive Unix states that it is possible for some DMA chips
> to malfunction when more than one allocated DMA channel is used simultaneously.
> My motherboard is the AMI Voyager 486-25.
> 
Check your DMA Chip.  If it is an 82C206 multifunction peripherial controller,
try a different vendor if you have that problem.  I have had good success
with the Chips & Technology Branded version.  I had spooky intermittent
problems with a "second source" version (I tried 3 from that mfgr). The
C&T chip worked the first time, using 486-25,AMI Bios, Tiwan Board.

John Watson