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Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 12:12:02 -0700
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Subject: Re: Attempted summary of "RT patch acceptance" thread
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On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:43:02PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Nforce4 chipsets have some problems that look like DMA starvation too,
> the RME people claim to have traced it to the SATA controller.
> 
> http://www.rme-audio.de/english/techinfo/nforce4_tests.htm
> 
> Basically these all fall under common sense engineering, you don't use
> buggy/unproved hardware for an RT or any mission critical system.  

How did folks work around that ? by using another SATA PCI-e card ?

bill