Re: VIA silent disk corruption - bad news

Udo A. Steinberg (sorisor@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De)
Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:02:50 +0100


Peter Horton wrote:
>
> The patch doesn't work for me. Maybe I need to disable some more of
> those North bridge features :-(
>
> Oh bum. Back to testing with "normal" ...

FWIW, here's the output of my lspci for A7V with working 1003 BIOS
and still no corruption (after 2 hours stresstest).

00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 0305 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 8033
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR+
Latency: 0
Region 0: Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Status: RQ=31 SBA+ 64bit- FW+ Rate=x1,x2
Command: RQ=0 SBA- AGP- 64bit- FW- Rate=<none>
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00: 06 11 05 03 06 00 10 a2 02 00 00 06 00 00 00 00
10: 08 00 00 e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 43 10 33 80
30: 00 00 00 00 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

I'll leave the comparing work to you. If you need more info, just holler.

-Udo.
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