Subject: Re: Minimum MicroVAX 3100/20 kernel config?
To: None <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/09/1999 05:54:22
> 
> Yow!
> 
> >>>>> "Anders" == Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:
> 
>     >>  Speaking of DMA and the VS2000: Any chance for DMA support in
>     >> the near future? I turned green (because of envy) after I saw
>     >> what the SCSIDMA-kernel can do on a friend's 3100...
>     >> 
>     Anders> Yes, there are a chance for DMA support in the near future
> 
> You mean RSN? Oh, joy! I'll start filling my virtual fridge with
> virtual beer, then ;)
> 
Well, I prefer real beers. Actually :-)

>     Anders> :-) I'll just have to hook up one of my VS2000's so I can
>     Anders> test it.  No MFM yet, though.
> 
> Tha wise man (TM) netboots and uses SCSI afterwards. But I'm really
> curious magnitudes of speedup will kick in once DMA power is
> unleashed...
> 
I assume that you will get a couple of 100k/s out of it anyway :-)

-- Ragge