Re: cdrecord freezes when burning data
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 07:49:29AM -0800, Richard Otte wrote:
> Pigeon,
> Is there a command one can type to determine what type of chipset or
> motherboard I have? I tried looking at dmesg and didn't see anything
> useful. The machine is an old pentium II Dell that looks to have (from
> dmesg) a 447 MHz CPU with bus speed of 99.4 MHz.
> Thanks,
> Ric
lspci will tell you what chipset you're using. Here's mine:
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 40)
00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:07.4 SMBus: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 40)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
00:09.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 86C326 (rev 0b)
00:0a.0 SCSI storage controller: Initio Corporation 360P (rev 02)
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-Combo [Etherlink XL Combo] (rev 04)
00:0f.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AHA-7850 (rev 03)
All those VIA Technologies entries are the ones to watch out for. As I
say, they don't always give trouble. Mine gives two ignorable
problems: occasional "spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7" messages, and
the need to set the APIC to PIC mode in the BIOS to avoid lockups on
boot. But it seems that there are others out there whose experience is
less happy.
Pigeon
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