From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jan 6 3:10:42 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97EC437B401; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:10:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from supermarine.crossflight.co.uk (supermarine.crossflight.co.uk [195.172.72.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7690343E4A; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from guy@crossflight.co.uk) Received: from mailscan1.crossflight.co.uk (mailscan1.crossflight.co.uk [195.172.72.202]) by supermarine.crossflight.co.uk (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id h06BAJp25808; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:10:19 GMT Received: from crossflight.co.uk (unverified) by mailscan1.crossflight.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.3.1) with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:10:18 +0000 Message-ID: <3E19641A.10004@crossflight.co.uk> Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 11:10:18 +0000 From: Guy Dawson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Campbell Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ata "fallback to PIO mode" on dual processor AMD systems References: <1041368236.3e1204ac45da5@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This article from The Register may be of interest: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html It talks about a bug in the VIA 686B Southbridge chipset that can cause data corruption when processing large amounts of data. Guy -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Guy Dawson I.T. Manager Crossflight Ltd guy@crossflight.co.uk 07973 797819 01753 776104 ********************************************************************** This email contains the views and opinions of a Crossflight Limited employee and at this stage are in no way a direct representation of Crossflight Limited. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. To ensure the integrity and appropriate use of its email system, Crossflight Limited reserves the right to examine any email held on its email system or sent to or from it. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. We strongly recomend that you check this email with your own virus software as Crossflight Limited will not be held responsible for any damage caused by viruses as a result of opening this email. ********************************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message