Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 May 2001 17:26:57 -0700 | From | Joseph Carter <> | Subject | Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy |
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On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 06:26:14PM -0400, Aaron Tiensivu wrote: > This might be grasping at straws I remember VIA problem in the "good old > days" of Socket 7 with CPU/PCI Prefetches and especially Read-around-Write > settings that would cause issues like we're seeing with the Athlon > pre-fetches. This could be (total conjecture) related somehow to the > corruption bugs they are admitting to in the 686B although they are blaming > the SB Live now.
I don't see how they figure, but in case there was any doubt I have a VIA KT133A/686B board (Abit KT7A) and don't experience anything resembling disk corruption unless the box crashes for some other reason. I do seem to be experiencing AGP problems in spades, but my disks at least are fine.
-- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@debian.org> Free software developer
<_Anarchy_> Argh.. who's handing out the paper bags 8)
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