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Old November 17th 04, 07:56 AM
Zotin Khuma
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General Schvantzkoph wrote in message ...
On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:41:43 +0000, S.Boardman wrote:


"kony" wrote in message
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 13:51:40 -0500, General Schvantzkoph
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It's got to be something in the disk subsystem, CPU speed shouldn't have
any significant effect when ghosting a drive. It sounds like DMA is
disabled on the Intel systems and enabled on AMD systems.

yes, DMA is not working on the systems with the slower
times, though it's not really an Intel vs AMD issue, merely
what the specific motherboard bios is configured to
support... I have AMD boxes that don't support it either.
For example. an Asus A7S333 won't, but an A7V333, will.


What's the setting in the BIOS that should be enabled? I want to see what
mine is set at.


That would depend on the BIOS. If I were you I'd just open the BIOS up and
poke around. On Linux systems the BIOS settings don't matter because the
OS handles the devices directly. Windows does use the BIOS to handle disks
so BIOS settings do matter (that's why Linux supports large (137G) drives
on old hardware and Windows doesn't).


I suspected the DMA factor myself but didn't see anything I could set
in the BIOS (as I said before, Windoze is not involved). I'll check
again first chance I get - I don't have any Intel machine with me ATM.