On Monday 09 January 2006 08:25, Mike McCarthy, W1NR wrote:
>I saw a similar issue many years ago that turned out to be a chipset
> bug. This was a PII system that used 16 bit wide modules. When using
> only one module, the chipset "fooled" the OS into thinking that it
> was doing 32 bit wide operations. However, it failed at full speed.
> Reducing the memory bus speed or installing modules in pairs "fixed"
> the problem. I suspect a bus or memory controller issue rather than
> the kernel.
>
>The failure mode was exactly as you describe. It manifested itself as
> disk errors or DMA failures. Unfortunately the chipset vendor
> determined that it was a silicon bug and said that they would NOT fix
> it!
>
And that sucks the big one, Mike. Will you share that vendors name so
we can bypass them in future purchase thinking?
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