Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | 13 Apr 2001 10:02:30 -0400 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > 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.
This is good to know. I'll stay away from UDMA and the ide-patches until things seem clearer then.
> The real concern (as with all of these things) is going to be what the > workaround does to performance - as measured in frames/second for most folks ;)
Well, this is a compile server (and will have a lot of RAM) so running PIO for a while shouldn't have much impact.
Thanks, Alan.
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