Re: [expert] Computer Market (Was VIA disaster)

2002-05-13 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 04:22, civileme wrote: > Ummm, I would never be one to single out VIA. There have been real bugs > in _ALL_ the chipsets around. How much of those you see depends on > where in the arms race you pick out a kernel, in most cases. > > The VIA 686B southbridge had a proble

Re: [expert] Computer Market (Was VIA disaster)

2002-05-10 Thread Bjarne Thomsen
This was NOT ment as a crusade against VIA, but a warning against a particular Motherboard/chipset combination: A7V266E+KT266A. Actually, it specifically happens when you copy a few BG of files (each about 16MB) from an SGI machine running IRIX64 to the A7V266E+KT266A running LM 8.2, and it happen

Re: [expert] Computer Market (Was VIA disaster)

2002-05-10 Thread civileme
Udo Rader wrote: >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 writi