> Well, if you have Ghost (I don't), you could test it...
The last time I used Ghost it was to make an exact duplicate of a hard drive
on another drive so that someone's settings and data could be preserved in
moving to a new (already assembled) system with a new hard drive, prior to
clearing out the old drive so that the old system could be passed on to
another user. As far as I recall, it didn't involve any overhead, though
that might have something to do with the fact that I used a bootable floppy
with Ghost on it.
> What kind of devices would control an IDE hard drive? Would a SCSI hard
> drive exhibit the same phenomenon?
I may be misremembering. Now that I think about it, I seem to recall that
DMA for hard drives is actually meant to allow faster paging. Hell, I don't
remember. Sorry to have wasted your time -- it's been a while since I've
had reason to even think about it, and I don't have most of my books handy,
so I haven't the references to look it up in.
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