<A much more serious Coppermine bug than "boot hang.">
Tench: Relax, Petz. If there wasn't a workaround already implemented for this bug, it would indeed have been deemed
much more serious than Dell's "boot hang."
If you want to get a little more technical, look at the description of the bug: "Snoop Request May Cause DBSY#
hang." Snoop requests happen all the time on the FSB, even on single-processor systems, although multi-processor systems exhibit a higher amount of such snoop traffic. There is no way on earth that a bug of this severity would have escaped unnoticed until now, or else owners of Coppermine-based workstations would have experienced on the order of one system crash per day.
Tenchusatsu
Exactly my point!
Let me get this straight, Tenchusatsu. Your argument is that, because the bug is so serious, it must not be serious.
Then you argue that there "must be a workaround," when Intel itself said a month ago, that a BIOS fix is POSSIBLE, but in the next month did not implement such a BIOS fix.
OCTOBER ERRATA: "BIOS fix is possible"
NOVEMBER ERRATA: "BIOS fix is possible", i.e., no change.
NO BIOS FIXES YET, THE BUG IS STILL THERE.
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