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- From: mtichy@fraser.sfu.ca (Martin Tichy)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Transfer Rates ??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.183857.16336@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:38:57 GMT
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- > I never put together that VL cards lock up the local bus to do
- > their transfers, whereas DMA transfers to/from an ISA card DON'T!!
- > Is this
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- I don't totally get this either. If one of your peripherals
- on an ISA bus is doing a DMA transfer, what is CPU going to do
- anyways? I could probably talk to another peripheral but I
- don't see it talking with the memory because of the DMA
- transfer? And as far as I know, ISA doesn't support
- multi-plexing. Other than that the only thing I can imagine
- the CPU doing is working from it's RAM cache.
-
- Now, what's to stop the CPU from talking to it's cache or
- another peripheral on the bus while a VL-BUS is doing a DMA
- transfer?
-
- I'm assuming we're all using pre-emptive, multi-thread, multi-tasking
- os' of course.
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