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dma enable?
Name: serious question Date: October 18, 2001 at 21:43:56 Pacific
Comment:
i am trying to speed up my comp and i read that if i enable dma on my hard drive it will do the trick.Problem is, when i try to i get a message tellin me that enabling it could have an undesirable effect on my hard drive.Should i continue to enable or not? I have 64 megs on a pII400mzh, runnin win98
Name: erez Date: October 31, 2001 at 11:37:55 Pacific
Reply:
enabling dma uses the dma address to move data from sectors in ur hdd...
well it does the trick when u use software for video editing like adobe premiere when u need to capture a movie the comes in vast speed of 80-600mb per second(yap its possible). then u enable dma mode - otherwise it does nothing and sometimes things even goes slower... u dont need it actually - but dont worry , nothing will happen...
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