From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: insecure <insecure@mail.od.ua>
Cc: Wes Janzen <superchkn@sbcglobal.net>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: FS Corruption with VIA MVP3 + UDMA/DMA
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:38:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030809173850.GA30143@mail.jlokier.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308091943.25231.insecure@mail.od.ua>
insecure wrote:
> > The VP2/97 also had severe problems with DMA. I could never run
> > standard kernels on mind in the 2.0 days, and distro installs would
> > always lock up during installation, although Mandrake 8 seemed
> > reliable so something improved.
>
> I had a VIA VPX sometime ago. AFAIR it worked fine...
>
> I suspect PCI conf tweaks etc could work around
> this trouble. I'm afraid there won't be much interest
> in fixing these oldies. For example, I got rid of that
> board (exchanged for Socket A one) -> no way to test fixes :(
I found a hdparm command which fixed it, though it wasn't much use
during distro installs. It was very pleasant to see Mandrake 8 just
work. Fwiw, Windows 95, 98 and NT4 have no problems on the box. It's
now my "Internet Explorer 4" test rig :)
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-09 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-30 14:37 [PATCH 1/4] Optimize NFS open() calls by means of 'intents' Trond Myklebust
2003-06-30 14:39 ` Trond Myklebust
2003-06-30 18:17 ` FS Corruption with VIA MVP3 + UDMA/DMA Wes Janzen
2003-07-12 20:42 ` Wes Janzen
2003-07-14 9:06 ` Vladimir B. Savkin
2003-08-09 12:19 ` Wes Janzen
2003-08-09 14:37 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-09 15:57 ` Helge Hafting
2003-08-09 17:11 ` John Wendel
2003-08-09 16:27 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-09 16:43 ` insecure
2003-08-09 17:38 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2003-08-09 23:18 ` Wes Janzen
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