On Tuesday 31 December 2002 20:58, Franklin Maurer wrote:
On Tuesday 31 December 2002 8:57 am, Ray Poynter wrote:
On Monday 30 December 2002 16:14, Franklin Maurer wrote:
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That ran through my mind as well. It happens on my dvd drive if I leave an audio cd in the night before. I thought maybe linux didn't care fore the grateful dead... but
yesterday, or 2 days ago, 29th?,("Drive errors", by mike, I think), there was a similar post, with the same messages. It seemed that the via chipset was the culprit.
Is that was you use as well?
Of course right after that someone said it wasn't via, it must be a hardware problem. So i guess i'll just ignore the messages..
Have a happy new year.
Yes, I have a VIA chipset on the motherboard - the one that has a `southbridge bug' . The only problems I have had with this (new) system was some horrible crashes that I tracked down to a kinked and trapped IDE cable leading to the main hard drive. It might be interesting to see if these problems go away when/if I upgrade the kernal (I am on 2.4.19 at the moment) as according to a post in the kernal developers list (sorry can't find the reference now) a fix for this VIA problem might be included in the 2.4.20 kernal - there is a patch for it but as I do not seem to be having problems I am loathe to patch a working kernal. Happy new year to you too! -- Ray