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On 5/7/99, 1:26:27 AM, Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re: Via chipset problems: Hi Bob, try < > use DMA by default when available. Thanks I think I've spotted it ....don't use ^. I'm not going to try it again. Spose I should find out how to boot from floppy to run e2fsck, then can e2fsck fix problems it finds ? Cheers, Colin Tree > On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 11:57:25AM +0300, Heikki Ylipiessa wrote: > > On Thu, 6 May 1999, Colin Tree wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > Yo! > > > I have a K6II-350 on a motherboard which > > > has a Via Apollo MVP3 chipset. I tried kernel 2.2.1 a > > > couple of times. If I select via82c586 chipset support > > > and PCI bus-master DMA support, it stuffs the whole > > > file system. I patched it up to 2.2.7, still the same > > > problem. > > > > > > Has anyone else seen this? > > > Who do I report it to? > > > Is there a kernel group? > > > > I had similar problems .. but when i disabled the VIA support > > nb after that . > > so the problem is with via driver . > > Don't know whos work is it .. but i hope someone will do > > something about this BUG asap. > What are the symptoms of this? I just recompiled 2.2.7 with via support > to take a look. So far I don't see any problems.