Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13

From: Ville Herva
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 01:30:40 EST


On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 12:23:28AM +0100, you [Alan Cox] wrote:
> On Mer, 2005-09-28 at 11:43 +0300, Ville Herva wrote:
> > I NEVER got the board stable, and ended up ditching it.
> >
> > It seemed to be a KT133 Northbridge DMA issue. My impression is that KT133
> > is utter crap period.
>
> It was a FIFO bug, but the kernel knows about it and it should handle
> this correctly.

Interesting. Since which version?

> Is the hard disk running UDMA133 ?

The hardware has long since been ditched for good after months of vasted
effort to get it working, but I think HPT370 on KT7 supports UDMA100 at
maximum, and the disks were likely UDMA66.



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