Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13

["Rogério Brito" <rbrito@ime.usp.br>]

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:

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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:~$
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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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