On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 04:22, civileme wrote: > Ummm, I would never be one to single out VIA. There have been real bugs > in _ALL_ the chipsets around. How much of those you see depends on > where in the arms race you pick out a kernel, in most cases. > > The VIA 686B southbridge had a problem which caused cross-channel IDE > DMAs to provide _massive_ corruption on transfers of more than 100Mb, > but a workaround was found and put into the kernel. > > The KT266A and current ALi Chipsets have broken clocks. Under heavy > loads, spurious clock pulses can play hell with UDMA transfers. A > temporary fix would be to depress the priority of the clock interrupt > using irqtune, but then dispatching would be adversely affected. Yes, > under certain circumstances (software RAID with journaling filesystem > and heavy load) these chipsets with the broken clocks show data > corruption, really. > > SiS and Intel are not free of problems either. Just right now those are > covered by kernel workarounds, mostly. Some workarounds have to be > invoked, separately, as is the case with K6-2 and SiS 530 chipsets which > perform much better under "nopentium" installs and boots. There is a > serious break for agpgart for some i815 implementations... You pays > your money and you takes your chances; when has it been different? > > I used to hate certain brands of Motherboard and love others, but while > I was busy avoiding the ones I hated, some of them became good and > reliable, while those I thought were great acquired new owners who were > determined to cash in on the reputations of the previous owners's > fanaticism for quality.
Bingo! That's my experience exactly. While I stagnated in Tyan mobos, the other ones advanced, innovated, and evolved. Fortunately, I did keep looking around and listening to the tech sites, and as a result I'm currently in a sweet spot. > There are no constants in this industry. Things are moving too fast. > Knowledge overall is doubling every 6 years or less, and in the > computing industry it is quite a bit faster than that (remember > processor speed is doubling every 18 months, for example). The people > in good odor today may smell of the sewer tomorrow, depending on whether > the techs or the marketeers are in control of their company. Seconded, in a big way. :) > Civileme > LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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