From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>,
Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:58:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010414005816.B2290@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m38zl5exm0.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> <E14o3k7-0002tq-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E14o3k7-0002tq-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 02:36:05PM +0100
Alan Cox wrote:
> > Is this problem likely to affect 2.2.X? I have a VIA-based board on
> > order (Tyan Trinity) and I don't plan to run 2.4 on it anytime soon
> > (it's upgrading a stock RH6.2 box).
> >
> > Am I safe if I stay in PIO mode?
>
> I have received exactly zero reports of 2.2 problems, and as the 2.2
> maintainer I would have expected more (I delete 2.2 + ide-patch
> reports). My suspicion is the problem requires UDMA to occur, or to
> occur with any probability.
Are you talking about IDE DMA problems on any VIA boards, or the Tyan in
particular? I've sent several reports of sudden system death on a VIA
motherboard, that were confirmed by a few other people. It's still
present in 2.2: Mandrake 7's installer froze, twice, until I added
"ide=nodma" (or whatever the option is). Note, this is _without_ UDMA:
the board is not capable of UDMA.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-13 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-13 8:00 Dennis Bjorklund
2001-04-13 9:44 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-13 13:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 13:29 ` Doug McNaught
2001-04-13 13:36 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 14:02 ` Doug McNaught
2001-04-13 22:58 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-04-14 4:38 ` Dan Podeanu
2001-04-15 17:45 ` Thomas Molina
2001-04-16 6:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
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