Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:15:49 -0300 | From | Rogério Brito <> | Subject | Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13 |
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Hi, Ville.
On Sep 28 2005, Ville Herva wrote: > You may be running into this problem: > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0207.2/0574.html > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-02/1727.html > http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-01/1048.html > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=99889965423508&w=2 > > (A google search will turn up more.)
Thank you very much for these links. It seems that I may be not alone here, unfortunately. :-(
> Placing network card to a different PCI slot helped somewhat as did > upgrading the bios.
I have not played with the network cards, but I have already upgraded the BIOS firmware to the latest version that I could find (in the hope that I could get the Duron 1.3GHz being actually identified as such, instead of operating at 1.1GHz).
> It seemed to be a KT133 Northbridge DMA issue. My impression is that > KT133 is utter crap period.
Well, is this a problem particular with KT133 or is this a generic thing with VIA chipsets?
I'm interested because I don't know the other chipset options that are Open Source friendly---it seems that Nvidia-based ones have to have reverse-engineered drivers (e.g., forcedeth), which is quite bad, IMO.
I'm intenging to get another system as soon as the dust settles and x86_64 and SATA drives become mainstream enough to be readily available here in Brazil for reasonable prices.
But, then, I'd be concerned in getting a chipset from an company that plays nice with Linux (and the *BSDs too, for that matter). Opinions are more than welcome.
Thanks, Rogério Brito.
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