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 problem
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 writing
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
