Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Aug 2003 18:38:50 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: FS Corruption with VIA MVP3 + UDMA/DMA |
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insecure wrote: > > The VP2/97 also had severe problems with DMA. I could never run > > standard kernels on mind in the 2.0 days, and distro installs would > > always lock up during installation, although Mandrake 8 seemed > > reliable so something improved. > > I had a VIA VPX sometime ago. AFAIR it worked fine... > > I suspect PCI conf tweaks etc could work around > this trouble. I'm afraid there won't be much interest > in fixing these oldies. For example, I got rid of that > board (exchanged for Socket A one) -> no way to test fixes :(
I found a hdparm command which fixed it, though it wasn't much use during distro installs. It was very pleasant to see Mandrake 8 just work. Fwiw, Windows 95, 98 and NT4 have no problems on the box. It's now my "Internet Explorer 4" test rig :)
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