Christian Mattar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> DeMoN_LaG wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>
>>Since UDMA does nothing to hurt performance or stability in any way,
>>there is really no reason to NOT install busmastering drivers that
>>support it anyhow.
>>
>
> This is not strictly true. There were/are some problems with VIA
> chipsets and SB-Live and some general bugs in the chipsets influencing
> stability.
>
> Christian
>
This incident was a specific timing issue that was related to the 686B
southbridge and the ATA100 on board RAID controller and devices attached
to it. It had nothing to do with busmastering, and devices NOT on the
RAID controller never had data corruption
