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Dan Geer: PCI board rumor
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Aug 18 14:17:40 1995
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 14:18:14 -0400
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Subject: PCI board rumor
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 14:16:56 -0400
From: Dan Geer <geer@cam.ov.com>
from a trustworthy friend
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You may want to be alert to the following, that I picked up off the
net.
It appears that one of the common I/O controller chips used in PC
boards has a race condition that causes data corruption. This
controller is frequently used on board that use the PCI bus. One
estimate is that 1/3 of all the PCI PC's are affected. Systems that
have heavy I/O traffic (OS/2, Linux) are much more likely to see this
problem than DOS or Windows 3.1. Jury is still out on Windows 95.
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