Well, I have actually bin hit quite a bit of times with the bug. I
treid many things and could not get the corruption to stop. I
finally gave up when it became clear it was a chipset thing. However,
no problems with CDRW, only when I am doing large transfers between these
two drives. So , it is not that rare for people like me that use it quite
a bit. To avoide the corruption, I just use one IDE drive now and do small
transfers to the second.
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote:
> On Monday 30 July 2001 07:41 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Do I remember properly that because of the bug in this chip,
> > that the LM80 2.4 kernel SRPMs have DMA disabled on IDE CDRs and
> > CDRWs? And that that means that creating CDR* disks from IDE
> > CDR* devices is impossible on motherboards that have the 686b?
>
> I believe this business of the VIA-IDE bug is greatly overblown. It
> only rarely supposedly affects large transfers across IDE channels
> (>100mb). I have a VIA chipset board (Soyo k7vta pro) and have never
> experienced this bug. I just burned backup copies of Mandrake Freq2
> last night. I have 2 IBM HDDs on ide0, and a CDrom and CD-RW on ide1.
> Both LM 8.0 (various 2.4.x kernels) and Freq2 (2.4.5-5) have set up all
> the drives using 32bit and DMA during install. No problems, either
> burning CD's or while testing moving a 700mb file across ide.
>
> In researching this bug before I bought the VIA board I came across
> three elements that are said to provoke the bug. Older VIA chipsets
> (there's been bascially 3 steppings since the chip was introduced). SB
> sound cards, particularly SB Live! PCI, and then mostly with Abit
> motherboards. Newer Western Digital HDD's. I have none of the above,
> and since my research was done on the Net, take it with a grain of salt.
> I have had some correspondence with a friend who has all the above, 2
> new WD HDDs, a pci SB Live!, on a Abit KT7a, yet he's never experienced
> the bug or had problems burning CD's either.
>
