Re: VIA 686b Bug - once again :(

Krzysztof Halasa (khc@pm.waw.pl)
22 Oct 2001 15:55:18 +0200


Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> writes:

> > I would certainly expect so. I have a Gigabyte GA-7DX with the infamous
> > VIA
> > 686B southbridge...and an SBLive! Value...and I have no IDE devices at all
> > (complete SCSI). I have never encountered data corruption.
>
> Corruption *has* been reported on some scsi-only 686b systems, though.

Right, there were few reports, including mine. As it turned out, disabling
MPS 1.4 and probably setting something related to SDRAM (don't remember
exactly) fixed the problems.

-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
Network Administrator
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