At 8:32 PM -0400 6/8/03, Michael R.Zucca wrote:
>3. Do un-16-byte-aligned transfers under 4k by copying the data 
>to/from a pre-allocated and aligned transfer buffer. This will help 
>solve the sync negotiation problem by boiling it down to figuring 
>out how to do odd-sized transfers that appear to be completely DMA.
>4. Figure out a way to do odd-sized reads/writes that will satisfy 
>the sync negotiation code.

Doesn't most of the disk IO occur in 512-byte increments from 
page-aligned buffers?
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