Re: Via KT133 pci corruption: stock 2.4.18pre2 oopses as well

[hmh@debian.org (Henrique de Moraes Holschuh)]

On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> We've replaved that memory module now and now it's better but I have to
> say that the KT133 or atleast the Asus A7V motherboard seems to be quite
> broken. we have a lot of spurious irq's and the ide controllers freak when
> but under some load and start getting irq timeouts and resets the ide
> channels over and over again with some delay in between when it kind of
> works, slow as hell but works.

Well, my A7V is also acting up, with spurious IRQs (but not too many), and
PCI lockups if the load on the PCI bus increases too much -- this is
probably the last time I ever buy a VIA board (because they take soooo much
time to acknowledge their screw ups and help people fix it) unless they
start issuing non-binary-only fixes (heck, all it takes is a doc telling us
what to do on the PCI registers!).

The IDE corruption and lockups you can fix, just apply the latest IDE
patches, the 2.4.18pre IDE subsystem is not to be used on a KT133, it will
not work at all if you give it a slightly bigger load on the promise
controller, for example.

> We are going to replace the motherboard with one with VIA KT266A chipset,
> hope that works better.

Without the IDE patches, it will (most probably) not help.

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