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VIA Issues – IDE and SoundBlaster Live - tech
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| (hx) 08:17 PM CEST - Apr,23 2001 |
You may have read reports recently stating that there are issues with the VIA 686B Southbridge chip when using two ATA/100 hard disk with both set as Masters on the Primary and Secondary IDE ports. These reports also have indicated that this may involve the Creative SoundBlaster Live (SBL for short) or the SBL Value (SBLV).
The first reports seemed to come from the Register (http://www.theregister.co.uk/) - a publication viewed by some as a ‘tabloid’ due to it’s sensationalism and quite often a lack of hard facts to back up their ‘news’ – but in this case pointed to an article located here: http://home.tiscalinet.de/au-ja/review-kt133a-1-en.html. This article did a pretty good job of pointing out what they had found, but still left quite a few questions unanswered. There have also been numerous posts on a number of newsgroups and sites around the Internet discussing the topic. What I haven’t seen is any data to back up the original article, but have noticed (and participated in) some heated discussions on the topic. One trend I have seen is that most are just passing judgment without having all the necessary information. Quite frankly I don’t feel that without a background in mainboard and/or chipset design we just can’t place the blame, particularly without all the data needed to do so. But we can look and see if it is truly an issue and what configurations cause it, also what might cure it.
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