Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives (k8 cpu errata needed?)

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Tue Jan 16 2007 - 15:32:11 EST


On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:52:32PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:

> I agree,... it seems drastic, but this is the only really secure
> solution.

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?

> But we should not forget about the issue, just because SATA is not
> longer affected.

Right.
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