RE: Setting UDMA on ide drives

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:42:22 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Thomas Molina wrote:
> I've seen the chips it mentions, but haven't seen any of VIA's docs
> mentioning capabilities. I should visit VIA's website. I think some
> people on lkml consider the chipset broken.

There are two hardware flaws with the VIA chipsets. The IDE-Sound-DMA
bug and the IDE-CDROM-DMA bug. The first has a software fix, the second
you just dont run CDROMs in DMA mode on VIA.

-Dan

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