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Ricordate quell'articolo che denunciava la presenza di problemi bandwidth-related dei chipset VIA ? Bene, la casa taiwanese è già al lavoro per risolvere questo piccolo grande problema che compromette la velocità degli hard disk più veloci (specialmente ATA133). Tech Report a questo indirizzo ha pubblicato alcune informazioni a riguardo...

VIA was also keen to point out that they hadn't had this problem brought to their attention before. Only now are multi-drive RAID arrays that can tax the PCI bus becoming common. Now that they're aware of the problem, VIA says they'll be working actively with PCI card manufacturers to help improve throughput. Apparently, these IDE RAID controllers address each PCI bus implementation a little bit differently, and there's room for improvement in how they handle VIA's PCI bus.
As for George's patch, it attempts to reduce PCI latency with VIA chipsets. (Apparently, VIA's PCI bus implemention could benefit from latency reductions, as Ryu and others have suspected.) Unfortunately, though, some of the things it does are not fully compliant with the PCI 2.2 spec, so Microsoft wouldn't certify any VIA drivers that incorporated such tweaks.