linux-kernel - RE: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:54:31 -0800
From:	"Allen Martin" <AMartin@...dia.com>
To:	"Chris Wedgwood" <cw@...f.org>,
	"Christoph Anton Mitterer" <calestyo@...entia.net>
Cc:	"Robert Hancock" <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <knweiss@....de>, <ak@...e.de>,
	<andersen@...epoet.org>, <krader@...ibm.com>,
	"Lonni Friedman" <lfriedman@...dia.com>,
	"Linux-Nforce-Bugs" <Linux-Nforce-Bugs@...dia.com>
Subject: RE: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

> I'd like to here from Andi how he feels about this?  It seems like a
> somewhat drastic solution in some ways given a lot of hardware doesn't
> seem to be affected (or maybe in those cases it's just really hard to
> hit, I don't know).
> 
> > Well we can hope that Nvidia will find out more (though I'm not too
> > optimistic).
> 
> Ideally someone from AMD needs to look into this, if some mainboards
> really never see this problem, then why is that?  Is there errata that
> some BIOS/mainboard vendors are dealing with that others are not?

NVIDIA and AMD are ivestigating this issue, we don't know what the
problem is yet.
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