Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:43:45 +0100 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x |
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On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:48:41AM -0500, safemode wrote:
> From what I gather this chipset on 2.4.x is only stable if you > cripple just about everything that makes > it worth having (udma, 2nd ide channel etc etc) ? does it even > work when all that's done now or is it fully functional?
For most people (95% at least) it's fully functional, including DMA (even UDMA100), both channels (I have never seen a problem with the 2nd channel?), etc. There are some people who have problems, namely Abit KT7 users, but a BIOS upgrade seems to fix those case usually.
> I used some pre 2.4.1 kernel before it thrashed my disk and i had UDMA > disabled in bios and kernel and the corruption persisted. I heard > somewhere that it may have been linked to swap ? Anyway, I'm using > 2.2.19-pre7 right now with DMA and it's doing perfect ...with better > responsiveness than 2.4.x . Could this be because of via problems on > the 2.4.x kernel or is it 2.4.x arch ?
No, probably not.
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