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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!grumpy.fl.net.au!news.webspan.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs BSD Date: 13 Feb 1997 09:56:03 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 13 Message-ID: <5duofj$cu1@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <slrn5feb63.93l.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> <32F73973.167EB0E7@freebsd.org> <32F96662.F67@citynet.net> <5dcpoj$r8a@halon.vggas.com> <tx6804aigt.fsf@ime.usp.br> <5dpg38$1th@innocence.interface-business.de> <slrn5g135j.nml.exfjnzl@c01021-111poe.eos.ncsu.edu> <5dsph4$457@web.nmti.com> <slrn5g46ck.8vo.exfjnzl@c00591-2411br.eos.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:158090 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2480 exfjnzl@rbf.apfh.rqh (Ravi K. Swamy) wrote: > The problems with the RZ1000 were documented in several trade rags. > It works 99.9% of the time but there are possibilities of data corruption. Only in DMA mode. The only known workaround is to not use DMA at all for them (thus hogging your CPU, but who cares in times when the typical workstation CPU is 95 % idle anyway? ;-). -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j