On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:47:15PM +0200, fLokNo wrote: > hello! > > i haven't found the information i need in google: > > i bought myself a via kt133 asus a7v mobo in autumn 2000 with an > athlon-tb 900, socket a. > soon after this a problem with the northbridge was discovered with > corrupt ide data writes when the pci bus is under load. > in windows this problem was fixed with updated bios and updated > via-4-in-1 drivers. > > now my question: is vanilla-kernel 2.4.20 still affected or has the bug > been taken care of? and is/was my onboard promise controller affected > too? > data loss is a bad thing!
I have the A7V with the extra two ata100 channels (the promise controller) and I used it with linux for several years, putting it under heavy load often, with no problems with any of the kernels I've tried (vanilla, gentoo, ck). I did have an ugly issue with my RAID5 and some strangeness that resulted in some filesystem curruption and lots of file having to be moved from /lost+found back to their original homes, but I think that was hard drive related. Alan -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "There are only 3 real sports: bull-fighting, car racing and mountain climbing. All the others are mere games." -- Hemingway -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
