Articles tagged ‘dma’

System slows down upon heavy HDD or CD-ROM I/O operations

Whenever I copy big files around on my HDD's, or writing a CD, or just doing cat /dev/zero /dev/null, the system slows down sensibly.

Ill-behaving Quantum hard-disk

Suddenly, my old Quantum doesn't stand DMA mode anymore -- it would crash out of it shortly after I attempt any heavy usage, such as copying a big file.