Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Apr 2001 00:58:16 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets |
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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.
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