Re: VIA's Southbridge bug: Latest (pseudo-)patch

[Marc Lehmann]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:10:02PM +0100, Adrian Cox <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > data corruption was easily detectable, one couldn't even write 500megs
> > without altered bytes).
> 
> 
> Wrong way round. You're right that the pci master is supposed to handle 
> delayed transactions, but during data transfer the pdc is the pci master 
> and the northbridge is the PCI target.

Ok, so it could be the promise controller (the controller, however, worked
for a long time in another board with no via chipset and pci delayed
transactions enabled, so I guess it is not only dependnet on the promise
controller).

and this means that there is no automatic workaround, since not all
systems seem to have this problem.

I *do* hate silent data corruption :()

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