[Forum] Articia: Still DMA-problems? | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-May-2003 11:16 GMT by Senex | 122 comments View flat View list |
From a news-item at VGR.com it appears that the current Articia-northbridges might still have DMA-related problems:
"Mr. S.W. who sends over screen shots of newer AmigaOne 800mhz G4 hardware, has sent over 2 screen shots of the new A1 with G4 running 'amigaone xe/g4 7451 800mhz, excalibur radeon 9000 pro 64mb ddr ram, valueram kvr133x72rc3/256 kingston'. He wants to know '.. if other aone users have that problem as well..', 'it never outputs the same checksum with dma enabled when testing an iso file which is larger than the swap space used'
You can see the Radeon 9000 Pro screen shots here: DMA On & DMA Off."
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Posted by Snowfox on 22-May-2003 07:35 GMT | In reply to Comment 94 (Remco komduur): > I know some people would very much like to see a
> full stop in delivery but it's not a big problem
> and is a Linux problem at the moment. Some programmers
> from the OS 4 team might even fix that for you which
> they don't even have to do because Linux is not their
> business.
That you can fix it with a new driver doesn't mean it's a "driver problem". It's still a hardware bug, no matter how you fix it. I don't know how exactly such a fix works but i hope the os4 driver will take care of that. Errors on your harddisk are not just small bugs like a click on audio output. Errors on harddisks are worst case and i as long as Hyperion or Eyetech doesn't guarantee that this problem has been fixed then i wouldn't even consider using the onboard ide controller with dma. |
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