Re: [LinuxBIOS] filo ide speedup patch!

[Corey Osgood]

Corey Osgood wrote:
> Tom Sylla wrote:
> > IDE UDMA is always going to be faster than PIO. If your intent is only 
> > to speed up CF, then it doesn't really matter, UDMA and MDMA CFs are 
> > still pretty rare. If you want to make all filo loads faster, you may 
> > want to look into IDE DMA. It really isn't much harder to program than 
> > IDE PIO.
>
> I've been following this thread...DMA might not be much harder to
> program, but it's not supported by some compact flash cards and/or the
> IDE adapters some of us use. FILO needs to have some sort of PIO mode
> capability ;)
>
> -Corey

Heh...disregard that, just read your message again. It's been a long
day, thank god it's friday.

-Corey