Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-22 Thread Chris Lale
Pigeon wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2003 at 05:53:54PM -0700, Al Davis wrote: I have since installed Debian, with 2.4.20-bf2.4, and now I wonder if it is safe to re-enable DMA. I have a VIA 82C686 southbridge, and 2.4.20 enables its VIA southbridge workaround when it boots. So presumably the

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 13:42, Al Davis wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Donald Spoon
Al Davis wrote: On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset support is included in

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:43, Bob Proulx wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Well, 1st, do you know which chipset the A7V266-D runs? Btw, the ASUS web site only mentions the A7V266-C. http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v266-c/overview.htm Try this url for the dual model. (D is for dual.)

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:48, Bob Proulx wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Al Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: How do I find out? I am using the one on the woody bf2.4 cd. lspci will show if you have VIA and grep VIA /usr/src/linux/.config will show if you have enabled

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or othersolution

2003-01-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2003-01-19 at 15:48, Bob Proulx wrote: ... ... But the A7M266-D doesn't use a Via chipset. From http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7m266-d/overview.htm : The A7M266-D leverages the technology of the AMD 760MPX chipset A quick google, and the *first* URL shown on