Re: PROBLEM: Slowdown for ATA/100 drive on PCI card, after 2.4.3 upgrade.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 12:33:12 +0100 (BST)


> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>
> ATA/100 drive on PCI ATA/100 controller was very fast under 2.4.0 and
> 2.4.2, but becomes *very* slow under 2.4.3

Known problem with the VIA cipset setups. We turn a lot of features off to
try and avoid a hardware problem. VIA have finally released an 'official'
fix which seems to be a lot less damaging to performance on the whole. That
I hope will be in 2.4.4

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