William,  Basically, busmastering means that the MPU
is relieved of handling the chore of transfering data.
In this way the chipset and the PCI card work in
harmony without requiring the processor to stop what
it is doing at any given moment and transfer this data
on the PCI Bus. HTH,  Ted
--- William Patton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: William Patton
> Date: March 14, 2001
> Subject: Bus Mastering
> I can't seem to find any information on exactly what
> bus mastering is.  I
> intend to install a Promise ATA100 PCI card into my
> computer  and Promise
> says that the MB must be PCI 2.1 compliant, which
> mine is.  It is an Asus
> with HX chipset and P200MMX.  But that it must
> support bus mastering.  I
> never really knew what that meant.  Any information
> would be greatly
> appreciated.  William Patton
>
>
>
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