[CLUE-Tech] kernel drivers

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:34:27 -0600
Dave Hahn <dhahn at techangle.com> wrote:

> Many stories abound about problem with VIA chipsets under Linux.  Just a
> thought.

I just grepped about 4 weeks of /var/log/messages for these errors. Just
one flurry of them, all at the same time. But their on HDD, and it's known
that ripping CDs via the IDE driver can cause trouble. In this case, oddly
enough, the solution is to use the generic SCSI driver, and rip from
/dev/sg? instead. Why that would be so, since the generic SCSI driver has
to go through the IDE anyway, I don't know, but it's true.

Other than that, on two Seagate Barracudas, no errors. Yeah, it's a VIA
chipset, AthlonXP mobo from MSI.

jed
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