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From: Doug McNaught <doug@wireboard.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: db@zigo.dhs.org (Dennis Bjorklund), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets
Date: 13 Apr 2001 10:02:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3y9t4ew3t.fsf@belphigor.mcnaught.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14o3k7-0002tq-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: Alan Cox's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2001 14:36:05 +0100 (BST)"

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > Is this problem likely to affect 2.2.X?  I have a VIA-based board on
> > order (Tyan Trinity) and I don't plan to run 2.4 on it anytime soon
> > (it's upgrading a stock RH6.2 box).
> > 
> > Am I safe if I stay in PIO mode?
> 
> I have received exactly zero reports of 2.2 problems, and as the 2.2
> maintainer I would have expected more (I delete 2.2 + ide-patch
> reports). My suspicion is the problem requires UDMA to occur, or to
> occur with any probability.

This is good to know.  I'll stay away from UDMA and the ide-patches
until things seem clearer then.

> The real concern (as with all of these things) is going to be what the
> workaround does to performance - as measured in frames/second for most folks ;)

Well, this is a compile server (and will have a lot of RAM) so running 
PIO for a while shouldn't have much impact.

Thanks, Alan.

-Doug

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-13 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-13  8:00 Data-corruption bug in VIA chipsets Dennis Bjorklund
2001-04-13  9:44 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-13 13:11   ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 13:29   ` Doug McNaught
2001-04-13 13:36     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-13 14:02       ` Doug McNaught [this message]
2001-04-13 22:58       ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-14  4:38     ` Dan Podeanu
2001-04-15 17:45       ` Thomas Molina
2001-04-16  6:45   ` Eric W. Biederman

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