Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

[Tobias Ringstrom]

So you have not seen any corruption, but are willing to do testing.  Very
kind, but you could have choosen a better subject, I think.  There are a
lot more rumours that facts regarding the VIA drivers right now.

/Tobias

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Nicholas Knight wrote:

> I have a Soyo K7VIA motherboard which uses VT82C686A, with an 800mhz Athlon
> CPU in it.
> So far I've never run a 2.3* or 2.4* kernel on it, I've only done that on my
> P3 using a propriatory micron motherboard that uses an intel BX2 chipset.
> However, I recently trashed my linux installation (doing things totaly
> unrelated to the kernel) and now would be more than happy to assist in
> trying to figure out what the heck is causing the filesystem corruption on
> VIA chipsets, but so far I've only found bits and peices of information on
> it, and have been unable to locate a compiliation of information avalible on
> the problem, so I'd know just where to start.
> If anyone could point me to a good place to start looking, besides the
> thousands of messages containing just bits and peices of information, I
> could get to work on some testing.