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On Sunday 17 Feb 2002 12:09 pm, you wrote:
> SB Live is worth avoiding if your have AMD processors and a VIA chipset, as
> there are known problems wiith this combination - if you are not using SCSI
> drives and having to rely on the onboard controller then it can corrupt
> the disc. There are BIOS patches for this, and also a Linux workaround
> if you happen to be running that, but how effective they are at fixing this
> problem is still open to question as its a hardware timing issue.

This is scarey...I didn't know this at all....I'm here with a VIA KT266A 
based motherboard, Athlon 1600XP, SB Live, MDK 8.1 with reiserfs on two 
ATA-100, IBM drives and two SCSI cdroms on a 2940UW (not the cdroms though, 
they are sat on the narrow SCSI port)....

Does the corruption only only happen at high loads?

I'm going now to make google my friend :)

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