> > I want to see the code to handle the apparent VIA DMA bug. At this point,
> > preferably by just disabling DMA on VIA chipsets or something like that
> > (if it has only gotten worse since 2.2.x, I'm not interested in seeing any
> > experimental patches for it during early 2.4.x).
>
> It hasnt gotten worse, its just its a very specific combination and its a
> well known problem (vendors dont enable auto dma for ide for this reason)
> 2.2.16 just covers the cases I know about (and slightly overdoes it for now)
>
> > We've already had one major fs corruption due to this, I want that fixed
> > _first_.
>
> I've got other reports too.
>...
At least some of the reported problems with VIA chipsets are fixed with
the VIA IDE driver v3.11 [1]. Are there any problems that still occur with
this driver?
cu,
Adrian
[1] http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2001-Week-02/1291.html
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