On Sat, 13 Jan 1996 16:43:54 -0500 
 Chris Cappuccio <ccappuc@satelnet.org> wrote:

 > whoops..this is strange-I no longer  get
 > 'sw0: options=1<DMA>'.. This is with current... the sw
 > driver isno longer using dma.. (4/110).  although it has
 > some potentially serious bugs, none of them seem to actually corrupt the
 > filesystem and the added speed is well..needed ;)

I disabled it be default, because I _have_ gotten a couple of reports of 
data corruption.

You can enable DMA if you wish by adding "flags 0x1" to the "sw" line in 
your kernel configuration file.

Ciao.

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