RE: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

From: Allen Martin
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 17:01:03 EST


> I'd like to here from Andi how he feels about this? It seems like a
> somewhat drastic solution in some ways given a lot of hardware doesn't
> seem to be affected (or maybe in those cases it's just really hard to
> hit, I don't know).
>
> > Well we can hope that Nvidia will find out more (though I'm not too
> > optimistic).
>
> Ideally someone from AMD needs to look into this, if some mainboards
> really never see this problem, then why is that? Is there errata that
> some BIOS/mainboard vendors are dealing with that others are not?

NVIDIA and AMD are ivestigating this issue, we don't know what the
problem is yet.
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