>>     By all means, enable DMA, but make sure the bus mastering drivers
that
>> came with your motherboard are installed, or it really won't matter.
>
>    I've learned that win98 (which I use) has all the drivers needes for
DMA HD
>access. In Tyan's page (my motherboard is Tyan) there's only drivers for
Win95
>and WinNT. Do I need drivers?


    You know, my assumption may be a bit outdated, so I really don't know. I
would be interested, though, to here what Tyan's tech support says. Maybe
you should write them and ask, and post the reply here. I've always thought
that UDMA was impossible unless bus mastering drivers were installed, but
Win98 may include them.

 (My box doesn't seem like it has DMA enabled right now - I had trouble
installing the bus mastering drivers, so I omitted them, and I'm running
98.)

-Peter Ramins

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