DMA Bus mastering - turn on in DOS?

I posted the following question on Sierra's message board, and got the following reply, which leads to another question which I hope someone here can answer. Thanks! This explains it. I wonder if there are any utilities which would turn on dma bus mastering in DOS? -- Alison Hine

Yes, try DMAdiag. You'll find a link to it on my utilities page, http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ebusch/utilities.html --