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can someone explain what is preparation time in DMA exactly?

and why is it multiplied by CPU cycle time in most of the questions here?

does preparation time means that a word is brought into disk controller buffer from hard disk and it utilizes CPU?

PS-DMA is giving me headaches!!!

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