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Apple OSes and IDE DMA Support?

Posted by Cliff on from the they-couldn't-have-overlooked-this-could-they dept.

KFox wishes to get to the core of this particular issue: "I just recently purchased an iBook and I have noticed that even in Jaguar, the system gets choppy from disk I/O. It appears that Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X don't support DMA access for hard drives, even if the drives are initialized in a UDMA mode. Wintel has had support in this area for a long time (since Win95b). Has anyone in the Mac world had any experience with DMA support on hard drives? Is it supported on iBooks? If so, which models?"

4 of 49 comments (clear)

  1. DMA is supported on all platforms... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    At least all the platforms I've used. The DMA believes that all marketers should be able to spam, and so it is! I get spam, even on my PowerBook :)

  2. Steve Jobs has said that thou shalt not... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    have DMA. It is an evil PC technology, just like those 3 button mice.

    I know what mac users what.

  3. a reality check by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    you really have no life do you? you certainly dont have a girlfriend a wife or kids, because if you did, you wouldnt have time to make it your purpose in life to always flame these articles. And what time you did have, you would want to spend it better, with actual people, ya know, friends?

    And on that day when you had a moment to read slashdot, and you came across a post such as yours, you would shake your head a realize there are some pathetic excuses for humanity out there.

    have a nice day

    1. Re:a reality check by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      dude. who's lamer. him for asking a computer question, or you for flaming his computer question.

      you think he should have better things to do? I think you should have MUCH better things to do.