Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Oct 2001 09:57:24 -0700 | From | Rupa Schomaker <> | Subject | Re: VIA 686b Bug - once again :( |
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Kelledin Tane <feralgod@home.com> writes:
>> So my questions is: >> I'm going to buy a 3ware 6410(B) >> IDE raid controller .. can I suspect >> a failure safe system (in aspect to >> the 686b problems) when all discs >> are connected to the 3ware >> controller? > > I would certainly expect so. I have a Gigabyte GA-7DX with the infamous VIA > 686B southbridge...and an SBLive! Value...and I have no IDE devices at all > (complete SCSI). I have never encountered data corruption.
I experienced constant and reproducable data corruption on two via motherboards. One using 686 and one 686b. However, not with the IDe drives. This was with a DDS4 scsi tape drive attached to either a Adaptec or Advansys scsi controller. A 2.5G file dump to tape would never restore the same. One the Adaptec card, I would get 1 or 2 blocks of 64bytes that would differ. On the Advansys it would be 1 or 2 blocks of 63 bytes.
Switch to a PIII-500 on a BX motherboard and have had no problems. The VIA motherboards are now in windows machines where the flakiness of the OS is even worse than the hardware.
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