On Jan 17 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote:
>
> Could those that were involved in the VIA chipset discussion email me
> privately at pgpkeys@hislinuxbox.com?
Just to add a datapoint to the discussion, I'm using a VIA
chipset here (in fact, it's an Asus A7V board with a Duron), a
2.2.18 kernel with André's patches and I'm only using IDE
(UDMA/66 and UDMA/33 here) and I'm *not* seeing any problems.
Perhaps this may be a problem with some revisions of the
chipset (or, perhaps, I'm not stressing my system enough for
the bugs to show their heads).
I'm attaching the output of lspci of my machine to this
message.
I also used a 2.4.0 kernel with all support for everything
here enabled, but the HD where I had that kernel died. :-( So,
I'm back using a 2.2.0 kernel.
> I'm truly interested in solving this issue. I personally think it's
> more than just the chipset causing the problems.
This may be a possibility, since I'm using this very same
chipset and I'm not seeing any problems...
> VIA chipset
> Promise controller (PDC2026# with specifics on the PDC20265 (ATA100))
I'm using these (but I don't have anything in my Promise
controller yet, since I couldn't find UDMA/100 drives when I
bought my machine).
> SMP support
> IDE + SCSI mix in the system.
But I'm not using SMP nor SCSI here.
Hope this helps, Roger...
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