Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

[Chris Wedgwood]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:11:29PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> - error in the Opteron (memory controller)
> - error in the Nvidia chipsets
> - error in the kernel

My guess without further information would be that some, but not all
BIOSes are doing some work to avoid this.

Does anyone have an amd64 with an nforce4 chipset and >4GB that does
NOT have this problem?  If so it might be worth chasing the BIOS
vendors to see what errata they are dealing with.
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