Re: Only 10 MB/sec with via 82c686b - FIXED

[Alan Cox]

> Wonder of wonders, I flashed the bios to the latest and greatest version.
> Current data transfer rates are 35.7 MB/sec on both udma drives, exactly
> as expected and darn close to the continuous read limits of the disks.
> The audio also started working, flawlessly.
> 
> There are other issues however - the athlon now runs significantly hotter
> at idle for one, but the most serious is that the K7 kernel optimizations
> cause horrendous kernel panics and crashes.  I'm running now on a kernel
> compiled for 386, which seems to be stable.  I'll attempt to build other
> kernels to see if I can figure out whats going on.

Check the bios update didnt leave some of the other configuration values
wrong. A 'reset to factory defaults' and resetting the stuff you need might
be a good idea. Could be it now has voltages wrong or something like that

Alan