The Register reports VIA 686B bug

[Roland Saldanha]

The Register cites two german sources and reports that Via admits a bug
in the 686B southbridge that causes data corruption on large file
transfers when both IDE channels are active and DMA transfers are
involved (my understanding of the summary). Supposedly a Bios fix will
address this.

The original link is here:

http://www.au-ja.de/ (Article in German from the German site that
documented the problem).

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/18267.html

After occasional problems with a FIC-PA2013 and via chipset I have just
bought an ASUS A7V133 and gave VIA the benefit of the doubt instead of
switching to Intel!! I hope the bios fix addresses the problem because
the machine was bought for video editing/audio capture editing. I will
constantly write large files and certainly do not want an unfixable bug
wrt to large files.

Eventhough this bug may directly affect me, I personally, prefer a Via
that is upfront and honest about bugs: for example if the bug is not
fixable at least I know what I need to do rather than beating your head
against the wall trying to fix unfixable problems.

Roland

[Peter McNeill]

Weee.. this was a problem even with the kt133 chipset... but since they
scraped making a7v's of course it only affects the newer boards. lame
asus/via, lame.....

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