Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:14:44 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2005-09-29 at 09:29 +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:23:28AM +0100, you [Alan Cox] wrote: > > On Mer, 2005-09-28 at 11:43 +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > > > I NEVER got the board stable, and ended up ditching it. > > > > > > It seemed to be a KT133 Northbridge DMA issue. My impression is that KT133 > > > is utter crap period. > > > > It was a FIFO bug, but the kernel knows about it and it should handle > > this correctly. > > Interesting. Since which version?
Some fixes went in early 2.4 and they got refined later on. See the function quirk_vialatency). There is a brief summary at the first URL listed still. Essentially the chip has a flaw where it can lose a transfer.
If people see this behaviour on a KT133 can you please check the quirk is being run and displaying
printk(KERN_INFO "Applying VIA southbridge workaround.\n");
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