linux-kernel - Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

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Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:57:23 +0100
From:	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@...entia.net>
To:	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>
CC:	Karsten Weiss <K.Weiss@...ence-computing.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Erik Andersen <andersen@...epoet.org>
Subject: Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory
 hole mapping related bug?!

Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>> Did anyone made any test under Windows? I cannot set there
>> iommu=soft, can I?
>>     
> Windows never uses the hardware iommu, so it's always doing the
> equivalent on iommu=soft
>   
That would mean that I'm not able to reproduce the issue unter windows,
right?
Does that apply for all versions (up to and including Vista).

Don't understand me wrong,.. I don't use Windows (expect for upgrading
my Plextor firmware and EAC ;) )... but I ask because the more
information we get (even if it's not Linux specific) the more steps we
can take ;)

Chris.


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