Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David Grant" <> | Subject | Re: VIA KT133 data corruption update | Date | Sun, 28 Oct 2001 18:50:35 -0800 |
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Bryan,
I have an A7V-133 motherboard, and the VIA IDE just started to work finally, after upgrading my BIOS to 1007, the latest one, which came out on the same day as your 1009. I never experienced "data corruption" as you described, just irq timeouts which crashed fatally. It seems like everything is normal now, in other words, I could install Mandrake 8.1 with no problems whereas it failed dozens of times before. There was one other I did different this time, and that was that I created the partitions in Partition Magic 7.0 for Windows instead of using DiskDrake. I can't see this would have any bearing on things, so I can only attribute the recent successful install to ASUS's new BIOS.
David Grant
On Saturday October 27, Bryan O'Sullivan said: > >After several months of begrudgingly putting up with my ASUS A7V >motherboard corrupting roughly 1 byte per 100 million read during >moderate to heavy PCI bus activity, I flashed VIA's 1009 BIOS this >evening. > >I have not been able to reproduce any corruption since then (it was >ridiculously easy before the new BIOS), and my machine seems otherwise >as stable as I would hope. This marks the first time since 2.4.6 that >I've been able to run a Linus kernel without cowering. > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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