cautionary note about KT133 southbridge systems

2002-06-23 Thread Michael Perry
HI all- Awhile ago, I built a system which was destined to be my webserver which was a AMD Duron 800 with the "fabled" Kt133a Southbridge chipset. AFter numerous backups with amanda, I kept on getting i/o errors and strange dump reports using an IBM 45 gig ATA 100 drive. On the system, the dri

Re: cautionary note about KT133 southbridge systems

2002-02-18 Thread Aaron Smith
Don't know if this will help or not but this problem was discussed at some length on various VIA HArdware sites. IIRC, it was tracked down to an incompatibility between the Southbridge and, of all things, the Soundblaster Live! sound card. Do you have such an animal in this machine? Eithe

cautionary note about KT133 southbridge systems

2002-02-18 Thread Michael Perry
HI all- Awhile ago, I built a system which was destined to be my webserver which was a AMD Duron 800 with the "fabled" Kt133a Southbridge chipset. AFter numerous backups with amanda, I kept on getting i/o errors and strange dump reports using an IBM 45 gig ATA 100 drive. On the system, the dri

Re: cautionary note about KT133 southbridge systems

2001-12-27 Thread Aaron Smith
Don't know if this will help or not but this problem was discussed at some length on various VIA HArdware sites. IIRC, it was tracked down to an incompatibility between the Southbridge and, of all things, the Soundblaster Live! sound card. Do you have such an animal in this machine? Eithe

cautionary note about KT133 southbridge systems

2001-12-27 Thread Michael Perry
HI all- Awhile ago, I built a system which was destined to be my webserver which was a AMD Duron 800 with the "fabled" Kt133a Southbridge chipset. AFter numerous backups with amanda, I kept on getting i/o errors and strange dump reports using an IBM 45 gig ATA 100 drive. On the system, the dri