Excellent insight. I personally just canned my AMD boxes in favor (and $$) of the P4/800's to make the problem go away.
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 09:47, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 08:57:01AM -0500, Joe Briggs wrote: > > interrupts or DMAs. For example, combine a AMD Via chipset with a 4-port > > frame-grabber going full boar on all channels and in less than a day > > your hard drive will be mush (physically its good, but the filesystem > > will be totally hosed). With the AMD, a lot of this is because of their > > If it is doing this look for a BIOS upgrade. VIA fixed the arbiter crash > initially for SB Live using boxes only, then for all. On some boxes sticking > in an SB Live (unused even!) cures it. This was only the 133/early 266 stuff > thankfully. > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > ivtv-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ivtv-devel
