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Re: Harddisk sugguestion?



Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:

> Hi
>
> Do you know where is it? I bought my motherboard a few months ago but it
> seems like there isn't any update bios after rev1005 on the website
>
> Edwin Lau
>

Here goes, from suse-linux-e list, could not find out which motherboard they
were talking about, hope it helps:

-----snip---------------------------

>
> spotted this on my morning surf @ http://www.amdzone.com/, sooooo....
>
>
>                       VIA 686B Bug Fix
>                              Reported by: Chris Tom      At: 12:40 PM
>                                                          Source: VIA
> Hardware
>                       VIA Hardware has a fix for the 686B bug that
> corrupts data when transfering large
>                       files between ATA100 devices. Scroll to the bottom
> of this page (watch the use of Java)
>
> http://www.viahardware.com/download/viatweak.shtm
>
> to download the "PCI Latency Adjust file."

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>
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 16:16:45 Debian User wrote:
> > Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > >         I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there
> > any
> > > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA
> > chipset (I
> > > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66
> > harddisk
> > > is what I want but I guess ATA100 with ide card is welcome too. thanx
> > > everyone
> >
> > AFAIK there is an update on the ASUS website for this chipset, should
> > solve the
> > problem of dealing with large files/copies.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Joost van der Lugt
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
> Edwin Lau (lauedw@waves.utoronto.ca)
>
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Cheers,

Joost van der Lugt



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