Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:05:55 -0300 | From | Rogério Brito <> | Subject | Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13 |
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On Sep 29 2005, Alan Cox wrote: > Some fixes went in early 2.4 and they got refined later on. See the > function quirk_vialatency). There is a brief summary at the first URL > listed still. Essentially the chip has a flaw where it can lose a > transfer. > > If people see this behaviour on a KT133 can you please check the quirk > is being run and displaying > > printk(KERN_INFO "Applying VIA southbridge workaround.\n");
Just as an information, I get the following messages on my system:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - rbrito@dumont:~$ dmesg | grep -i via Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09 PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7 VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:04.1 Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. rbrito@dumont:~$ dmesg | grep -i memor Memory: 775776k/786352k available (1847k kernel code, 10076k reserved, 733k data, 148k init, 0k highmem) Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09 Non-volatile memory driver v1.2 Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed rbrito@dumont:~$ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Is this what is supposed to appear when one is using a 2.6.1x kernel?
Thanks for any hints, Rogério Brito.
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