Re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE disk corruption

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:29:46PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote:

> I'm running kernel 2.4.3-pre8 on an ASUS A7V (BIOS 1007) motherboard and
> recently noticed that it sometimes corrupts my hard disk, an IBM 75GXP on
> the onboard PDC20265 IDE controller.  The corruption is detectable with a
> simple 'dd if=/dev/urandom of=test bs=16384 count=32768; cp test test2 ;
> diff test test2'.

/me throws arms in the air in despiration
It seems that the exact same settings corrupt a lot on one board and not on
another. But if you remove the quirk, the corruption is the
other way around........ 

Greetings,
  Arjan van de Ven