Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

[Chris Lale <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk>]

Pigeon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:53:54PM -0700, Al Davis wrote:
> > I have since installed Debian, with 2.4.20-bf2.4, and now I 
> > wonder if it is safe to re-enable DMA.
>
>
> I have a VIA 82C686 southbridge, and 2.4.20 enables its "VIA
> southbridge workaround" when it boots. So presumably the problem has
> been addressed to some extent. So far I've had no corruption, but "so
> far" is only about a week with this MB.
>
> I only noticed that boot message today; it may therefore be the case
> that earlier kernels had a workaround too; but maybe 2.4.20's has been
> updated.

I don't know if this is relevant. I have a VIA chipset too. The PC has 
been running happily on a 2.2 kernel with DMA enabled. I upgraded to 
stock Debian kernel 2.4.18-k7 a couple of weeks ago. 'dmesg | grep VIA' 
shows the following boot messages:

PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:07.1

No sign of any disc corruption. The PC is rebooted several times a day.

Cheers,

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Chris Lale             <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk>