From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 1 12:20:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptavv.es.net (ptavv.es.net [198.128.4.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7666B37B409 for ; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ptavv.es.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f91JK8k26805; Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200110011920.f91JK8k26805@ptavv.es.net> To: Mike Murphree Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fs corruption (ATA / 4.4-REL) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:09:30 CDT." <20011001140930.A5599@w4lna.dyndns.org> Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 12:20:08 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 14:09:30 -0500 > From: Mike Murphree > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > 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... No. The problem is only on some KT133A chip set and VIA has fully documented the problem on their web site. It's very real for the folks with those sets and no BIOS fix installed or available. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message