Re: Descent, Gravis Ultrasound, and random lockups!!! (Solved!!)

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From: Curtis.N... Curt Lindner
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 08:36

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In article <3els7r$f...@bigboote.WPI.EDU> dam...@wpi.edu (Damian Frank) writes:

>DMAs greater than 4 are better because
>they're 32-bit (I THINK - I can't seem to remember if this is right, or if
>it was 16.  Anyone?), whereas 1-4 are lower.  This translates into a
>slightly faster loading of patches.

This appeared to be the problem I was having.  Although I tried every
combination of IRQs, I never bothered changing the DMA from 1.  I tried
setting both GUS DMAs to 5 (after getting some good advice from a fellow
"Curtis"), and it hasn't locked up yet. (Actually, it rebooted itself one time
when I hit the TAB key, but I don't know what caused that!)

Could anyone out there verify that using higher DMA channels provides better
performance??  Should I change my standard DMA channel settings to higher
values??  This and other questions......

-Curt

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Subject: Re: Descent, Gravis Ultrasound, and random lockups!!! (Solved!!)
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