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> From: "JM Rams" <josepmaria AT turomas DOT com>
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:10:25 +0100
> 
> I thing the problem is that smartdrv uses dma to write to disk.

This cannot be true, IMHO, since most disks use programmed I/O, not
DMA.

SmartDRV cannot change the hardware interface between the machine and
the disk.