Phoebus wrote: >"Since slave block allocation is simply a form of allocating memory, it >should only be done by access layer calls or scheduler loop calls" > >Only QDOS can de-allocate (without tricks) memory from slave blocks and I >think it doesn't do it..
Wrong. QDOS/SMSQ does it as soon as an application requests memory. BTW wether slave blocks are used or not is up to the device driver. Thats why rewriting the IDE device driver would help this problem. Slaveing could still be active for slower devices. Peter
