This crusade against VIA is ridiculous to me. Here at work we have about 25 computers working around, some of them are under very heavy duty as database servers or even worse as parts of a cluster. Approximately half of them is VIA based, even my workstation that I'm writing this is based on a soyo dragon-raid plus mobo (VIA KT266).
And we've had no - I repeat: NO - problems so far that could be directly linked to the chipset. But I remember a couple of other things that made our life hard: bad compilers (gcc 2.96, aka garbagecc), broken memory, malfunctioning harddrives - but that was **never** related to VIA in any reasonable way. And if you come around and say that even VIA has a path for the IDE driver in the kernel to work around some problems, you are simply wrong: This patch soley enables UDMA133 on some chipsets because the modifications did not make it yet into the current *STABLE* kernel (guess why???). ... had to say this ... udo Am Fre, 2002-05-10 um 02.46 schrieb lorne: > I hate to say this, but IMHO VIA chipset is JUNK!!! Now I don't want to > start a flame war and will ignore attempts to start one, but my > experience was horrible. I wasted enough time with a MB using a VIA > chipset to buy 2 brand name computers. I got an IWILL MB using a > different chipset and my problems have gone away. I then gave the MB to > my brother with the VIA chipset and he had altogether different hardware > and has had nothing but trouble with it. The thing has been replaced > twice. I WILL NEVER use via chipsets again and I don't say never often. > I'll take a littel slower for stable ANY DAY. Just my .5 cents worth. > > Bjarne Thomsen wrote: > > >I have previously reported disk corruption with > >the ASUS A7V266E motherboard and the VIA chipset. > >Then I closed the case, but too early it turned out. > >We have now done extensive testing, and we can reproduce > >the crashes with LM 8.2, LM 8.1, and RH 7.2. > >At first we suspected the 2.4.18 kernel, but this > >has not been confirmed by our testing. > >We then discovered that VIA had some patches for > >LM 8.2 against problems encountered under "heavy load". > >Unfortunately our work involves heavy load! > >We had difficulties compiling the stock LM 8.2 kernel, > >but we discovered that a newer version of the VIA IDE > >driver was included in the cooker 2.4.18-13 kernel. > >Now we had finally solved the problem, we thought. > >You guessed it. It crashed again! We have finally given up > >ASUS + VIA for ECS K7S6A + SiS745. > > > >I shall keep you posted about the new board. > > > >The people having problems with LM 8.2 > >should possibly check their hardware! > > > > -- Bjarne > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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