Re: VIA 686b Bug - once again :(

Rupa Schomaker
2001-10-22T16:57:18Z

Kelledin Tane <feralgod@home.com> writes:

>> 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.

I experienced constant and reproducable data corruption on two via
motherboards. One using 686 and one 686b. However, not with the IDe
drives. This was with a DDS4 scsi tape drive attached to either a
Adaptec or Advansys scsi controller. A 2.5G file dump to tape would
never restore the same. One the Adaptec card, I would get 1 or 2
blocks of 64bytes that would differ. On the Advansys it would be 1 or
2 blocks of 63 bytes.

Switch to a PIII-500 on a BX motherboard and have had no problems.
The VIA motherboards are now in windows machines where the flakiness
of the OS is even worse than the hardware.

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-rupa