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<P><FONT SIZE=2>A couple months ago there was a lot of traffic about how the 2.4 kernal had data corruption problems on systems using the VIA chipset. Eventually, they found that</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>by disabling DMA they could avoid the problem at the cost of speed. </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Recently, it was announced that a bug had been identified with the VIA KT133 chipset when used with a Soundblaster Live sound card installed that caused data corruption problems with large file transfers. What I have NOT heard is anyone confirming that fixing this newly discovered bug also fixes all the corruption problems under the 2.4 kernal.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Is it safe to turn DMA back on now that I have a fixed bios? </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Regards,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Steven Gorwood</FONT>
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