Subject: Re: PCI support
To: None <mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu, ziff@eecs.umich.edu>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@cue.bc.ca>
List: current-users
Date: 08/11/1994 22:34:13
On Aug 11,  3:45am, mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu wrote:
} Subject: Re: PCI support
} 
}    What extra features are [not] used yet?
} 
} My impression was that `Enhanced IDE' had options to do multi-sector I/O
} without an interrupt for each sector, and to do DMA.  I haven't actually
} seen technical specs for it, however.
} 
} If someone would like to look into this more, that would be dandy.  B-)

     These are in the current spec, but they are optional.  You have
to query the drive to see if it supports them.  There are draft copies
of the spec floating around the net.  I can't remember where I got
mine, but somebody else might know where to find it.

}-- End of excerpt from mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu

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