Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-07 Thread James Ralston
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, David wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, James Ralston wrote: > > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, David wrote: > > > > > Automatic configuration of the RAM timings ("By SPD") doesn't > > > work on this motherboard. > > > > WORKSFORME; I've never had any problems with the "By SPD" setting >

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-06 Thread Ed Wilts
On Sat, Oct 05, 2002 at 05:01:49PM +0800, JCS wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 16:43, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > > > BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive se

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
JCS wrote: On Saturday 05 October 2002 16:43, Arjan van de Ven wrote: hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive sends its data and includes a crc checksum; the controller re

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread JCS
On Saturday 05 October 2002 16:43, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } > > BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive sends its data and includes a > crc checksum; the controller rece

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
On another vt8233a topic: it seems there are more people than us who are having problems - here's what bugzilla says: 11 bugs found. ID Sev Pri Plt Owner State Result Summary 54905 nor nor i38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ASSIUnable to get sound from VIA VT82C686(Appollo Super AC97/Aud 56505 nor

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread David
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, James Ralston wrote: > On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, David wrote: > > Automatic configuration of the RAM timings ("By SPD") doesn't work > > on this motherboard. > WORKSFORME; I've never had any problems with the "By SPD" setting on > my Asus A7V333, regardless of the BIOS version (curren

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
James Ralston wrote: On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: ... hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } ide1: reset: success The dma_intr errors and the ide reset repeat several times during the boot. After it's booted, a

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
Arjan van de Ven wrote: hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive sends its data and includes a crc checksum; the controller receives the data and notices the data is corrupt

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Arjan van de Ven
> hdc:hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC } BadCRC errors are a cable issue. The drive sends its data and includes a crc checksum; the controller receives the data and notices the data is corrupted via the checksum.

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread James Ralston
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, David wrote: > > > I had some major stability problems at first with my A7V333, > > > until I worked around the BIOS bugs. No problems since. :) > > > > What BIOS does the A7V333 use? What were the symptoms of your > > stability problems? > > Automatic configuration of the

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Bradley Tate
Hi. I have a Gigabyte GA-7VRXP. Upgrading from 7.3, I now have DMA on my hard drives (yay!) but I've lost my USB hi-fi link device. usbview doesn't even see it (boo). I've not noticed stability problems, but I'll leave it running to see how it goes. b Peter L. Hurd wrote: Hey All, I've se

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread James Ralston
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > Here's what happens on my system on IDE initialization: > > VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 89 > PCI: Hardcoded IRQ 14 for device 00:11.1 > VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 > VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later > ide: Assuming 33MHz system

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread James Ralston
iming.h wasn't updated. That is *not* the case; ide-timing.h was patched as well. In short, not only did Red Hat incorporate my vt8233a southbridge patch into the kernel, they pulled more recent bits than I used. (I'll go update my web page accordingly.) > Machines running the u

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread David
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > David wrote: > >Does it work okay if you unplug the DVD drive? Have you tried replacing > >or re-positioning the ATA cable? > I'll try some of these after i've finished my assignment for college... ;-) Good idea. :) > Have you shared a bus between a DVD &

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread Paul Gear
David wrote: ... VP_IDE: VIA vt8233a (rev 00) IDE UDMA133 controller on pci00:11.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfc00-0xfc07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xfc08-0xfc0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive hdc: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive hdd: LI

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-05 Thread David
On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote: > >On 4 Oct 2002, Peter L. Hurd wrote: > > I'm using a Gigabyte 7VRX (same chipset as the Asus, IIRC) with an > Athlon 1800+, and i'm experiencing the same problems with IDE errors > that Peter is (see below). > ... > It still doesn't seem to be right. Here'

Re: vt8233a southbridge

2002-10-04 Thread Paul Gear
David wrote: On 4 Oct 2002, Peter L. Hurd wrote: I've seen some mention of this in this list already, and I'd like to add my 2c. The kernel in 8.0 does not play well with the southbridge vt8233a chipset. It works fine on my A7V333. I'm using a Gigabyte 7VRX (same chipset as the Asu