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VIA 686b bug - confirmed
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Friday, 13-April-2001 18:21:21 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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There has been some talk of this for a while now but nothing official. I can't find anything on VIA's site, but TheRegister are saying VIA has confirmed a "data-damaging glitch" in the 686B southbridge chip. This chip is widely used in various motherboard chipsets. VIA say it's a BIOS issue and the forthcoming fix will involve tweaking some PCI settings.
It's not exactly a common problem: the date corruption affects large, 100MB and up file transfers between two hard drives connected to separate IDE channels exchanging the data by DMA. Having a Creative Labs Soundblaster Live card in place seems to exacerbate the problem.
D'oh. Doesn't sound like my current IDE problem on the A7V, which has the 686A chip anyway. Still, will be interesting to see what VIA have to say about this..
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