Re: IDE *data corruption* VIA VT8367

Marc Lehmann (pcg@goof.com)
Thu, 16 May 2002 16:36:55 +0200

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:43:30AM +0100, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Has anybody seen this before? Any info would be appreciated. I would
> > be happy to provide more information.
>
> I have multiple similar reports, and in all cases where people tried, switching
> to a non via chipset cured it - it might be co-incidence but I have enough
> reports I suspect its some kind of hardware incompatibility/limit with
> the VIA and multiple promise ide controllers

On my system (ASUS CUV4X-D + 2x promise tx2), disabling pci delayed
transactions completely cured the data corruption (which corrupted a few
hundred bytes every gigabyte or so, which is "massive"). Does this help in
this case, too?

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