Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:56:58 +0100 (CET) | From | Martin Josefsson <> | Subject | Re: Via KT133 pci corruption: stock 2.4.18pre2 oopses as well |
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > We've replaved that memory module now and now it's better but I have to > > say that the KT133 or atleast the Asus A7V motherboard seems to be quite > > broken. we have a lot of spurious irq's and the ide controllers freak when > > but under some load and start getting irq timeouts and resets the ide > > channels over and over again with some delay in between when it kind of > > works, slow as hell but works. > > Well, my A7V is also acting up, with spurious IRQs (but not too many), and > PCI lockups if the load on the PCI bus increases too much -- this is > probably the last time I ever buy a VIA board (because they take soooo much > time to acknowledge their screw ups and help people fix it) unless they > start issuing non-binary-only fixes (heck, all it takes is a doc telling us > what to do on the PCI registers!). > > The IDE corruption and lockups you can fix, just apply the latest IDE > patches, the 2.4.18pre IDE subsystem is not to be used on a KT133, it will > not work at all if you give it a slightly bigger load on the promise > controller, for example. > > > We are going to replace the motherboard with one with VIA KT266A chipset, > > hope that works better. > > Without the IDE patches, it will (most probably) not help.
I am using the IDE patch. I've heard that the A7V133 which is based on the KT133A chipset works much better in linux. I know people using it in a router for a 1000 client network on a 100Mbit connection and it's working fine, no problems at all. If we push the networking too hard we get a lot of spurious interrupts and it appears as we loose some interrupts aswell as NIC drivers and IDE drivers start complaining sometimes and when it has started loosing interrupts only a reboot can bring it back to "normal" operation.
/Martin
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