Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Dec 1998 01:41:54 -0600 (EST) | From | Thomas Molina <> | Subject | Re: mozilla+XFree86+Linux-2.1.x => HARD LOCKUP (addition) |
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Usually I'm the one seeing problems no one else is seeing. This time I can't reproduce what I believe you all are talking about. Motherboard is TMC TI5VG+ with VIA MVP3. The drive is happily using UDMA.
On Mon, 7 Dec 1998, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > I have a VIA and get lockups with DMA to my IDE disk, unless > > > I do hdparm -X34 as well. > > > > I don't think so, but I can't tell for sure. The problem happened > > in the sound code when the driver attempted to figure out how much the DMA > > transfer had progressed, by accessing the counter in the ISA DMA > > controller. Under heavy CPU load, and for some unknown reason, the VIA > > I've seen several VIA + (other DMA) and VIA + IDE dma = lockup problems. > You can tell the chipset lockup easily. The reset button wont get you out > of it on an ATX board you actually need to use the hard power off stuff > on the back. > > > runs when it gets its interrupt. Maybe Alan can aswer this one, Alan? > > Who knows. VIA don't answer emails.
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