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From: safemode <safemode@voicenet.com>
To: Tobias Ringstrom <tori@tellus.mine.nu>
Cc: Mark Hahn <hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca>,
	David Raufeisen <david@fortyoz.org>,
	Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:40:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A78945F.C82E7CAF@voicenet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101312302410.14538-100000@svea.tellus>

Tobias Ringstrom wrote:

> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote:
>
> > I'm wondering... Perhaps it's a problem motherboard specific.  I'm
> > using the KA7 and saw pretty bad problems (extreme fs corruption)
> > and bad latency. Perhaps the K7V and the KT7's dont have this problem.
> > I dont see any of the problems with dma enabled on 2.2.x
>
> But are you using the same DMA mode in 2.2 as in 2.4?  You can check that
> using hdparm -i, I believe.
>
> /Tobias

yea i know. . same mode       i also had a big problem with DMA timeouts on
2.4 so  .. i dont know what's up with 2.4 and my motherboard ...    2.2
hasn't shown a single irq or DMA error yet since going back to it.
currently 2.2.19-pre7 is using UDMA4     i just flashed the bios today so ..
hopefully that should have fixed any problems.  I get 24MB/s each according
to hdparm -t   on my hdd's and both are on the same channel.   This is much
better than i ever got with 2.4 even when only one drive was on a channel.
Right now my k7-2 750 is at 849mhz with a FSB of 114Mhz and PCI at 34Mhz.
my nbench performance under 2.2 is comparable to results for 1Ghz t-bird's so
i'm happy with 2.2.  The only thing that would make me want to upgrade would
be latency patches.  I'm convinced 2.4 has performance issues so i guess i'll
be using 2.2 until 2.5 begins.      Is it really only 1 or 2 people having
this Via corruption problem?   i doubt it's a bios problem because wouldn't
2.2 be effected by a bios bug if 2.4 is?   In either case the changelogs dont
show any  fixes for it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-31 22:41 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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