Technical question : DMA use

[Robert Collins]

On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 10:16, Sylvain Petreolle wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm building a dvd player.
> Dvd is played fine except that it is _extremely_ slow.
> 
> I had the same issue running it under Linux. The fix was to enable the
> DMA support via hdparm in the IDE harddisk configuration.
> 
> My question will be :
> Does Cygwin allow the use of the DMA channel to read files/devices ?

Cygwin uses the underlying IO calls of windows. If you enable DMA for
the windows device, cygwin should use DMA.

Rob

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