[NTLUG:Discuss] Via Chipset

[Nicholas Perez]

AFAIK, they identified the bug and corrected it in 2.4.3. because that is my
exact setup kt133 with an SBLIVE and i have seen no corruption 



On Fri, 11 May 2001 05:51:05 -0500, discuss at ntlug.org wrote:

>  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
>  by disabling DMA they could avoid the problem at the cost of speed.  
>  
>  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.
>  
>  Is it safe to turn DMA back on now that I have a fixed bios?  
>  
>  Regards,
>  Steven Gorwood





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