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From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: Kelledin Tane <feralgod@home.com>
Cc: Volker Dierks <vd@mwi-online.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VIA 686b Bug - once again :(
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 22:49:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011021224918.A30664@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200110211326.PAA01192@mail.mwi-online.de> <3BD2DCFB.C00E93B6@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <3BD2DCFB.C00E93B6@home.com>; from feralgod@home.com on Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:34:35AM -0500

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 09:34:35AM -0500, Kelledin Tane wrote:

> > So my questions is:
> > I'm going to buy a 3ware 6410(B)
> > IDE raid controller .. can I suspect
> > a failure safe system (in aspect to
> > the 686b problems) when all discs
> > are connected to the 3ware
> > controller?
> 
> I would certainly expect so.  I have a Gigabyte GA-7DX with the infamous VIA
> 686B southbridge...and an SBLive! Value...and I have no IDE devices at all
> (complete SCSI).  I have never encountered data corruption.

Corruption *has* been reported on some scsi-only 686b systems, though. 

> Just out of curiosity...is this IBM drive a 75GXP model?  What does IBM's
> Drive Fitness Test tell you about it?  I ask because the 75GXP is IMHO a
> flawed product line.

Well, I have a 30GB drive from the 75GXP family. It works just fine so far.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-21 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-21 13:26 VIA 686b Bug - once again :( Volker Dierks
2001-10-21 14:34 ` Kelledin Tane
2001-10-21 20:49   ` Vojtech Pavlik [this message]
2001-10-22 13:55     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2001-10-22 16:57   ` Rupa Schomaker
2001-10-22 17:11     ` Lorenzo Marcantonio
2001-10-21 15:05 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-10-21 17:37   ` Federico Sevilla III
2001-10-21 18:11     ` Alan Cox
2001-10-21 18:23     ` Stefan Smietanowski
2001-10-21 17:35 ` Federico Sevilla III
2001-10-23  8:55 ` clemens
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-21 18:42 Federico Sevilla III

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