On Thu 03 Feb 2000 at 12:10:06 -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> 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.

Could the DMA be disabled only when writing, leaving it enabled when
reading?

-Olaf.
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