Garf 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)....
Heh... Me too. Actually I was seeing the mouse pointer go screwy under high IDE load. I put some kind of soundblaster clone (creative clone) in it after fighting with the on-board stuff. Although I haven't seen it much lately, I thought the box was overheating. It's been a lot cooler here lately, and I've seen much less of it. I also enabled DMA on the IDE driver... maybe that was it. *big shrug* -kt -- Kingsley Turner, (mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://MadDogsBreakfast.com - Travel Tales: The good, bad, and down-right ugly _______________________________________________ Xmame mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://toybox.twisted.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/xmame
