Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-07 Thread Peter Horton
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 05:01:46PM +0100, Udo A. Steinberg wrote: > Dale Farnsworth wrote: > > > > However, if I enable the BIOS parameter "I/O Recovery Time", I can still > > enable read caching without seeing any data corruption. > > The lastest BIOS revision (1005C) enables "I/O Recovery Time"

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-06 Thread Jonathan Morton
>... after about 10 minutes waiting, while adding to this e-mail, the box is >still hung. Hmph... *RESET* System log shows no "DMA timeout" messages after rebooting, and no errors from the inevitable FSCK. -- from: Jonathan "Chrom

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-06 Thread Jonathan Morton
>I still get corruption with "I/O Recovery Time" enabled :-( > >I don't get corruption with the BIOS "normal" settings (1004D). > >I might update my BIOS to the latest BIOS in case it changes any other >settings. I'm using an Abit KT7 m/board, which uses the same KT133 chipset that I believe you

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-06 Thread Peter Horton
On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 08:52:23AM -0700, Dale Farnsworth wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Peter Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > + * VIA VT8363 host bridge has broken feature 'PCI Master Read > > + * Caching'. It caches more than is good for it, sometimes > > +

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-06 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Dale Farnsworth wrote: > > However, if I enable the BIOS parameter "I/O Recovery Time", I can still > enable read caching without seeing any data corruption. > The lastest BIOS revision (1005C) enables "I/O Recovery Time" by default > where the previous revision I had (1004D) did not. Interestin

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-06 Thread Dale Farnsworth
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Horton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > + * VIA VT8363 host bridge has broken feature 'PCI Master Read > + * Caching'. It caches more than is good for it, sometimes > + * serving the bus master with stale data. Some BIOSes enable > + * it

Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-05 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 5 Feb 01 at 19:05, Peter Horton wrote: > Okay, looks like this fixes it (for me anyways). > +* VIA VT8363 host bridge has broken feature 'PCI Master Read > +* Caching'. It caches more than is good for it, sometimes > +* serving the bus master with stale data. Some BIOSes enabl

VIA silent disk corruption - patch

2001-02-05 Thread Peter Horton
Okay, looks like this fixes it (for me anyways). Thanks to Mark Hahn and Andre for their help with this problem. P. --- linux-2.4.1/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.c Thu Jun 22 15:17:16 2000 +++ linux-2.4.1-bm-fix/arch/i386/kernel/pci-pc.cMon Feb 5 18:37:35 2001 @@ -924,6 +924,22 @@