re ide vs scsi why vlb busmastering slows your system in article apr mnemosyne cs du edu smace nyx cs du edu scott mace writes have you ever seen what happens when you hook a busmaster controller to a vesa local bus it actually slows down your system if you don t belive what i said about busmastering and vlbus then pick up a back issue of pc week in whihc they tested vlbus eisa and isa busmastering cards is vlb busmastering bad because it stops the processor fetching from external cache as well as main memory while the vlb card has the bus how significant is the slowing effect
