CMD640
CMD 640b PCI IDE controller
CMD640, the CMD Technology Inc product 0640, is an IDE interface chip for the PCI and VLB buses. CMD640 had some sort of hardware acceleration: WDMA and Read-Ahead (prefetch) support.
CMD Technology Inc was acquired by Silicon Image Inc. in 2001.
| Chip | Protocol |
|---|---|
| SiI/CMD 640 | MDMA 1 |
| SiI/CMD 643 | MDMA 2 |
| SiI/CMD 646 | UDMA 2 |
| SiI/CMD 648 | UDMA 4 |
| SiI/CMD 649 | UDMA 5 |
| SiI0680 | UDMA 6 |
Hardware bug
The original CMD640 has a data corruption bug.[1] The data corruption bug is similar to the bug affecting the contemporaneous PC Tech RZ1000 chipset. Both chipsets were used on a number of motherboards, including those from Intel.
Мodern operating systems have a workaround for this bug by prohibiting aggressive acceleration mode and losing about 10% of the performance.
References
External links
- File containing technical information, FAQs, and tests regarding the corruption issues
- Linux's description of how it deals with the CMD640 corruption
- IBM: July 10, 1998 - Warp FixPak TIPS (includes section on how to detect and mitigate CMD640 concerns)
- Archived Intel page detailing the RZ1000 bugs and offering a utility to detect buggy RZ1000 and CMD640 chipsets
- EIDE flaw
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