Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:04:17 -0500 | From | Gene Heskett <> | Subject | Re: 64 bit kernel |
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On Monday 09 January 2006 08:25, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote: >I saw a similar issue many years ago that turned out to be a chipset > bug. This was a PII system that used 16 bit wide modules. When using > only one module, the chipset "fooled" the OS into thinking that it > was doing 32 bit wide operations. However, it failed at full speed. > Reducing the memory bus speed or installing modules in pairs "fixed" > the problem. I suspect a bus or memory controller issue rather than > the kernel. > >The failure mode was exactly as you describe. It manifested itself as > disk errors or DMA failures. Unfortunately the chipset vendor > determined that it was a silicon bug and said that they would NOT fix > it! > And that sucks the big one, Mike. Will you share that vendors name so we can bypass them in future purchase thinking?
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