From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: safemode <safemode@voicenet.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:43:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010131124345.A1407@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101301716490.3105-100000@ns-01.hislinuxbox.com> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101301755330.3205-200000@ns-01.hislinuxbox.com> <20010131083642.A964@suse.cz> <20010130235525.A7513@fortyoz.org> <3A77DF79.2C1F5A7@voicenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A77DF79.2C1F5A7@voicenet.com>; from safemode@voicenet.com on Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:48:41AM -0500
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.
--
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.10.10101301743180.30535-100000@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>
2001-01-31 1:18 ` VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x David D.W. Downey
2001-01-31 2:04 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-31 7:36 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-31 7:55 ` David Raufeisen
2001-01-31 9:48 ` safemode
2001-01-31 11:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2001-01-31 12:54 ` Mark Hahn
2001-01-31 19:58 ` David Riley
2001-02-01 12:51 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-31 20:01 ` safemode
2001-01-31 22:04 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-31 22:40 ` safemode
2001-01-31 22:46 ` Alan Cox
2001-01-31 22:57 ` safemode
2001-02-01 6:31 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-01 0:46 ` Byron Stanoszek
2001-02-01 1:52 ` safemode
2001-02-01 6:52 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-01 11:32 ` safemode
2001-02-01 16:46 ` Byron Stanoszek
2001-02-01 18:06 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-01 18:20 ` Byron Stanoszek
2001-02-01 20:51 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-02-01 21:51 ` safemode
2001-02-01 21:56 ` Alan Chandler
2001-02-01 6:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-31 11:39 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2001-01-31 15:41 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-30 13:40 Nicholas Knight
2001-01-30 15:03 ` Tobias Ringstrom
2001-01-30 19:51 ` David D.W. Downey
2001-01-30 20:53 ` David Raufeisen
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