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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:01:46 +0100
From: "Udo A. Steinberg" <sorisor@Hell.WH8.TU-Dresden.De>
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To: Dale Farnsworth <dale@farnsworth.org>
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Subject: Re: VIA silent disk corruption - patch
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Dale Farnsworth wrote:
> 
> However, if I enable the BIOS parameter "I/O Recovery Time", I can still
> enable read caching without seeing any data corruption.
> The lastest BIOS revision (1005C) enables "I/O Recovery Time" by default
> where the previous revision I had (1004D) did not.

Interesting stuff.

Asus, Germany released 1005D today. It's available from
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_A/VIA_Chipset/Apollo_KT133/A7V/1005D.zip

No comments about what they changed and/or fixed.

-Udo.
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