Subject: Re: DPWS500/Pyxis bugs, corrupt memory etc.
To: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/03/2000 12:10:06
Olaf Seibert writes:
 > But my cdrom drive seems to use IDE DMA... (PWS 433a), or am I misled by
 > the last message? I never noticed any trouble with it.

Pyxis corruption only happens on DMA read operations (aka disk
writes).  So read-only media would be unaffected.

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