Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 22:26:50 +0100 (CET) | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: ide.2.4.1-p3.01112001.patch |
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I want to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA bug. At this point, > > preferably by just disabling DMA on VIA chipsets or something like that > > (if it has only gotten worse since 2.2.x, I'm not interested in seeing any > > experimental patches for it during early 2.4.x). > > It hasnt gotten worse, its just its a very specific combination and its a > well known problem (vendors dont enable auto dma for ide for this reason) > 2.2.16 just covers the cases I know about (and slightly overdoes it for now) > > > We've already had one major fs corruption due to this, I want that fixed > > _first_. > > I've got other reports too. >...
At least some of the reported problems with VIA chipsets are fixed with the VIA IDE driver v3.11 [1]. Are there any problems that still occur with this driver?
cu, Adrian
[1] http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2001-Week-02/1291.html
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