AMD Athlon + VIA Crashing On Disk I/O
Hi Andre, hi list!
I'm also having random lockups with an ASUS A7V266-E Mainboard, Athlon XP 1800+.
Chipset is the VIA KT266A, kernel 2.4.18 (SuSE version 2.4.18-58, from SuSE 8.0).
Nothing in the logs.
Andre, could you verify your possible answer? Any results?
Thanks, Richard
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Hi Josh,
I think I have an answer why the crash but I need to verify with a
client
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as we are seeing the same problem on various VIA boards. The good new
is
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we found on board that does not do this nasty. So we are doing a component wide comparisong of settings.
It is a really cool and smart embedded server found at
http://www.nit.ca/Cheers,
Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group
We gave up using kt266A chipset motherboards with anything faster than ATA100.
I can reproduce disk corruption within 30 seconds on any of the KT266A motheroards we've tried that have a highpoint 370/372/372a either onboard or on the RocketRaid133 controller. Did not get the corruption when using ATA100 or slower (e.g. promise fastrak 100 tx2).
Simple program that writes 1.2 gig to a file and reads them back (checking the value) will find corruption every time on these boards, and I tried 5 motherboards (2 asus, 3 abit). We switched to Intel I845 chipset and to AMD MPX chipset and haven't seen the problem.
I thought this problem was linked with the VIA chipset PCI latency issue as people were having the problem with high speed framegrabbers as well.
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