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Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:09:30 -0500
From: Mike Murphree <w4lna@knology.net>
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Subject: Re: fs corruption (ATA / 4.4-REL)
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On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 12:11:50PM -0500, Chris Dillon wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2001, Keith Mitchell wrote:
> 
> > pcib1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI (AGP) bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> > isab0: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> > atapci0: <VIA 82C586 ATA33 controller> port 0xb400-0xb40f at device 7.1 on pci0
> 
> The VIA chipset is probably your culprit, though I'm not exactly sure
> if the MVP3 has the PCI bus corruption problem or if it is only the
> later KT133/KT266 chipsets.  If so, your motherboard vendor is
> supposed to fix the PCI bus corruption problems in the BIOS, so try a
> BIOS update.  If that doesn't fix it, you'll have to install
> 4.4-STABLE, since Soren just recently put a fix into the ata driver to
> work around a problem with those chipsets that the motherboard vendors
> should be fixing but aren't.

Have seen this repeated time and again, but after 3 years with both
MVP3 and KT133A motherboard systems, I've never seen *any* filesystem
corruption. Maybe it is just poor quality hardware or mis-configured systems...

Mike

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