Tony,
Your PCI-DIO-96 Board does not has DMA. This board doesn't has any FIFO component on it so its not capable of configuring an on board buffer for later transfer to the computer buffer. The 653x family does have DMA, but the 650x family in which your PCI-DIO-96 board belongs to does not has DMA. You can find more information on each products catalog webpage in the datasheet link. (www.ni.com).
Your best approach with this board is performing handshaking I/O.
Good luck!...
Nestor Sanchez
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Nestor