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To: cinap_lenrek@gmx.de, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] VIA VT8237 SATA/RAID i/o errors, dma doesnt work
Date: Fri,  8 Feb 2008 15:27:40 +0000
From: Robert Raschke <rrplan9@tombob.com>
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I wrote a bit hastily:
> At the risk of repeating myself, there are several VIA boards that
> have issues with DMA (not necessarily isolated to HDD).  Your best bet
> is to have a trawl through the VIA forums (www.viaarena.com) and look
> for DMA related crashes being reported.  Maybe you've got one of those
> troublesome models.

Sorry, wrote this before I spotted your other emails about working
around the issue using retries.  I should try again to get my VIAs to
work with a similar workaround.

Robby