Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:55:25PM -0800, David Raufeisen wrote:
> On Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 08:36:42 (+0100),
> Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > 1) You don't seem to have any drives on the VIA controller. If this is
> > true, I don't think this can be a VIA IDE driver problem.
> >
> 
> Hi, Are you referring to Mark or me?

I was referring to David D.W. Downey, the one who started this thread.
He was in the To: fiels, you and Mark were in Cc:

> > 2) In your original message you suggest bs=1024M, which isn't a very
> > good idea, even on a 768 MB system. Here with bs=1024k it seems to run
> > fine.
> >
> > 3) You sent next to none VIA related debugging info. lspci -v itself
> > isn't much valuable because I don't get the register contents. Also
> > hdparm -i of the drives attached to the VIA chip would be useful. Plus
> > also the contents of /proc/ide/via.
> 
> I didn't supply anything either, even though my configuration works great it
> might prove useful to someone comparing:

Sorry, this message indeed was directed to someone else. Thanks for your
info, anyway, it's always useful to have some positive evidence that the
thing does work for people.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs