Subject: Re: UltraDMA problems under 1.6F (probably hardware)
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/19/2002 10:23:34
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:02:01PM +1000, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 12:43:48PM +0200, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> >   | I just got reproducible UDMA errors (with downgrades following)
> >   | on a new Athlon system with a VIA8233A UDMA133 capable controller.
> >
> > FWIW, I've seen the same problem (on a system with an Asus A7V333
> > motherboard).
>
> Hrm. That's three different controllers, counting mine (Acer Labs
> M5229 rev. 0xc4). Well, unless your Asus motherobard has a Via IDE
> controller, Luke, of which there's a pretty fair chance.

Yeah, it does. It's the Via KT333 chipset. And for the record, A7V333
downgrades, too, which is pretty annoying since it halves the sequential
read/write speed of my drive.

cjs
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