Re: Errr... what's all this about then?

[Bruce Tenison <btenison@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Strange.  I'm experiencing the same problem on a Promise PDC20262 
controller card too!
Another thing, is that I've never, well...  mostly never ;) , 
experienced problems with other filesystems
on either chipset (I know there are issues with the VIA stuff, had 
problems with the USB stuff too,
makes me wonder why I bought the MB in the first place...)

Anyway, I'm gonna try and use a different drive and see if I experience 
the same problems.  Using a seperate
partition, mounted on my ext2 root, I haven't been able to make it 
fail.  Gonna install RH 71 on the XFS
partition and make it a root, and see if it'll fail there (as it does on 
my Fujitsu drive)

Juha Saarinen wrote:

> :: using it on a
> :: VIA vt82c596b (rev 23) chipset, both showing the same style corruption
> :: problems.  Something's amiss!
>
> That's what we've got in common -- the VIA chip set. Nothing but trouble
> with that, to be honest. Memory performance is slower than on 440BX chip
> sets (trying to work out how to tweak the PCI registers with setpci so as to
> enable memory interleaving) and the IDE interface works poorly.
>
> Also discovered that there's an issue with the IO-APIC and Linux. If I
> disable it (append="noapic" in lilo.conf or at the boot prompt), I don't see
> the weird slowdown in disk performance.
>
>
>
> -- Juha