Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Isn't this "the famous VIA bug" which every computer magazine reported > about? I thought we already have a fix in the tree for this: > > (2) root_at_ttyp0 # dmesg |grep south > atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug It's not the "VIA config" that's the problem, it's the PCI config. You have to hamstring your PCI bus so that DMAs from the second channel to the first (e.g. such as when you load from a CDROM) are not corrupted. I believe the fix in the tree is for a seperate problem with this chipset, having to do with something noisy on the PCI bus (the common complaint is againt SoundBlaster Pro cards, or something like that, but any "noisy" PCI card will do it). Read the article, and the two links near the bottom (you will have to use the google cache to get to them). -- TerryReceived on Fri Jun 06 2003 - 19:50:07 UTC
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