Re: Strange disk corruption with Linux >= 2.6.13
From: Rogério Brito (rbrito_at_ime.usp.br)
Date: 10/03/05
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Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 02:05:55 -0300 To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Sep 29 2005, Alan Cox wrote:
> Some fixes went in early 2.4 and they got refined later on. See the
> function quirk_vialatency). There is a brief summary at the first URL
> listed still. Essentially the chip has a flaw where it can lose a
> transfer.
>
> If people see this behaviour on a KT133 can you please check the quirk
> is being run and displaying
>
> printk(KERN_INFO "Applying VIA southbridge workaround.\n");
Just as an information, I get the following messages on my system:
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rbrito@dumont:~$ dmesg | grep -i via
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:04.1
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
rbrito@dumont:~$ dmesg | grep -i memor
Memory: 775776k/786352k available (1847k kernel code, 10076k reserved, 733k data, 148k init, 0k highmem)
Disabling VIA memory write queue (PCI ID 0305, rev 02): [55] 89 & 1f -> 09
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Freeing unused kernel memory: 148k freed
rbrito@dumont:~$
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Is this what is supposed to appear when one is using a 2.6.1x kernel?
Thanks for any hints, Rogério Brito.
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