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From: Nicholas Petreley <nicholas@petreley.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VIA686b chipset and dma_intr errors, and 3c905B errors
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 20:19:23 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010326201923.C609@petreley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10103161041040.14210-100000@master.linux-ide.org> <3AB93A75.D18A78EE@student.luth.se> <20010326142858.A664@petreley.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010326142858.A664@petreley.com>; from nicholas@petreley.com on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:28:58PM -0800

Update: 

Thanks to some advice and help from Mark Hahn, I downloaded
the DFT utility from IBM that checks and fixes their
drives.  A low-level format fixed the problems (the utility
calls it "erase disk".  That seems odd to me, since I
thought that IDE drives automatically took care of bad
blocks, but apparently this needed the low-level format. 
I'll keep an eye on that drive, though...

As for the 3C905B, I've already replaced it with an
eepro100, but as Mark suggested in an email, I will turn
off the "optimal" performance setting in the BIOS and see
if that gets rid of all the bizarre behavior.  Apparently
that's not a kernel problem but a bios problem.  

-Nick

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Nicholas Petreley   Caldera Systems - LinuxWorld/InfoWorld
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-03-27  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-03-15 16:22 VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20 kozkir-8
2001-03-16 18:11 ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-16 18:23   ` Re[2]: " kozkir-8
2001-03-16 18:42     ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-16 19:03       ` Kirill Kozmin
2001-03-16 19:38         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-16 19:50       ` VIA686B + 2.2.18 (was: VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20) William Park
2001-03-20 18:39         ` Andre Hedrick
2001-03-21 23:34       ` VIA686A chipset crash under 2.4.2-ac20 Kirill Kozmin
2001-03-26 22:28         ` VIA686b chipset and dma_intr errors, and 3c905B errors Nicholas Petreley
2001-03-27  4:19           ` Nicholas Petreley [this message]

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