Re: VIA 686B/Data Corruption

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:48:32 +0100 (BST)

> > Interesting. They should be the same code for the VIA driver.
>
> I remember hearing something about Red Hat disabling UDMA on VIA chips
> across the board. Maybe that has something to do with it?

The RH 7.1 kernel disables VIA UDMA if the board has a DMI string indiciating
its a KT7 or KT7RAID. The errata kernel applies the fixups that people deduced
by hacking on the VIA stuff

Alan

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